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SCHEDULE §.

[Reg. 6(2)]

British NATIONALITY ACT 1948, Section 7(1).

Application for registration of a minor child of a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonles as a citizen thereof.

1. The application shall contain sufficient information to satisfy the authority to whom It is made-

(a) that the applicant is a parent or guardian of the child and, if he

is a guardian, as to how he becanie such, and

(6) that the child is a child of a citizen of the United Kingdom and

Colonica,

24 The application shall state the reasons for which it is desired that the child should be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies.

SCHEDULE 2.

[Reg. 7(2)1

BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1948, SecrrON 12(6). BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1958. Section 3(1)(b)(D) AND (2),

Application for registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies made by a former British subject.

1. The application shall contain sufficient information to satisfy the authority to whom it is made that the applicant----

(a) was a British subject immediately before 1st January 1949; (b) was, on that date, a citizen or potentially a citizen of a country mentioned in section 1(3) of the Act of 1948, as originally enscled and. but for that citizenship or potential citizenship, would have become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of section 12(4) of that Act;

(c) having been on that date a citizen of such a country, or having subsequently been mands one by the coming into operation of a law of that country, lost that citizenship otherwise than by his own act done for the purpose and thereby ceased to be a British subject;

(M) is of full age and capacity,

2.

The application shall state the nature of the applicant's connexion with the United Kingdom and Colanies.

3. If the application is intended to relate to any of the children of the applicant, it shall so state and the names, dates of birth and places of birth of the children in question shall be specified,

SCHEDULE 10.

BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1964, SECTION 1.

[Reg. M(2).]

Application for registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies made by a person who has ceased to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies as a result of a declaration of renunciation for the purpose of remaining or becoming a citizen of a country mentioned in section 1(3) of the Act of 1948,

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The application shall contain sufficient information to satisfy the authority to whom it is made (hereinafter referred to as "the appropriate authority") that the applicant-

(a) has ceased to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies as a result of a declaration of renunciation raade under section 19 of the Act of 1948;

(b) at the time of the declaration was, or was about to become, a citizen of a country mentioned in section 1(3) of the Act of 1948;

(c) either could not have remained or become such a citizen bul for the declaration or had reasonable cause to believe that he would be deprived of his citizenship of that country unless he made the declaration;

(d) unless he makes such a statement as is mentioned in paragraph 4. has a qualifying conexion (as defined in paragraph 2) with the United Kingdom and Colonies or a protectorate or protected state specified in the application, or, if the applicant is a woman. that she has been married to a person who has, or would, if living. have, such a connexion;

(e) is of full espacity.

For the purpose of paragraph 1(d) a person has a qualifying

2. connexion

(a) in relation to the United Kingdom and Colonies, if he, his father

or his father's father-

(i) was born in the United Kingdom or a colony: or

(i) is or was a person naturalized in the United Kingdom and

Colonies; or

(ii) was registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and

Colonies; or

(iv) became a British subject by reason of the annexation of any

territory included in a colony;

(b) in relation to a protectorate or protected state, if-

3.

6) he was born there; or

(f) his father or his father's father was born there and is or at

any time was a British subject.

Any reference In paragraph 1 or 2 to any country, or to countries or territories of any description, shall be construed as referring to that country or description as it exists at the date on which the application is made to the appropriate authority; and paragraph 2(a) does not apply to any person by virtue of any certificate of naturalization granted or registra- tion effected by the Governor or Government of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom which is not at that date a colony, protectorate or protected state.

4. If the applicant does not have a qualifying connexion as defined in paragraph 2 the application shall state the factors which the applicant wishes the appropriate authority to take into account in considering the application.

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