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the children of British subjects who were

themselves born abroad. It follows that if an

Anglo-Chinese who has received a certificate: of

denationalisation or is a person or dual nation-

ality should apply at a Consulate to register

the birth of his child there would be no legal

justification for refusing to register the

birth, at any rate if the application were made

in connexion with the 1922 Act. There is in

this a clear distinction between the registra-

tion of births and the registration of individuals

as British subjecte, since the latter has no

statutory effect. In practice, however, the

difficulty should be diminished by two

considerations:

(1) thai as, ander the new scheme the

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parent would in most cases not have been

registered as a British subject, he would

probably have difficulty in proving his

British natimality, which is an essential

preliminary to the registration of the birth

of the child, and

(2) that as the registration, although it

would