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SCH. 1
1965 c. 34.
Immigration Act 1971
manner, to be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies if he satisfies the Secretary of State that—
(a) he is patrial within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971 by virtue of section 2(1)(d) of that Act or of the reference thereto in section 2(2); and
(b) he fulfils the condition in subsection (3) below.
(2) On an application made to the Secretary of State in the pre- scribed manner, the Secretary of State may cause to be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies any person of full age and capacity who satisfies the Secretary of State that-
(a) he is a citizen of a country mentioned in section 1(3) of
this Act or of Eire ; and
(b) he fulfils the condition in subsection (3) below; and (c) he is of good character; and
(d) he has sufficient knowledge of the English or Welsh
language; and
(e) he intends in the event of his being registered to reside in the United Kingdom or a colony or protectorate or to enter into or continue in relevant employment.
(3) The condition that a person is required by subsection (1)(b) or (2)(b) above to fulfil is that throughout the period of five years ending with the date of his application to be registered, or such shorter period so ending as the Secretary of State may in the special circumstances of any particular case accept, he has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, or engaged in relevant employment, or partly the one and partly the other.
(4) For purposes of this section “
relevant employment " means—
(a) Crown service under Her Majesty's Government in the
United Kingdom; or
(b) service under an international organisation of which Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom is a member;
or
(c) service in the employment of a society, company or body of
persons established in the United Kingdom;
and in subsection (2)(e) includes service in the employment of a society, company or body of persons established either in the United Kingdom or in a colony or protectorate.
(5) A person shall not be registered under this section wholly or partly by reason of service within subsection (4)(b) or (c) above unless it seems to the Secretary of State fitting that he should be so registered by reason of his close connection with the United Kingdom or, if he is applying for registration under subsection (2), his close connection with the United Kingdom and Colonies.
(6) A person who has renounced citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonics under this Act shall not be entitled to be registered as a citizen thereof under subsection (1) above, but may be so registered with the approval of the Secretary of State.
(7) Where a person is a British subject without citizenship by virtue of section 13 or 16 of this Act or (being a woman) is a British subject by virtue of section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1965 by virtue of her having satisfied the Secretary of State that she has been
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married to a man who was, or but for his death would have been, a British subject as aforesaid, this section shall apply to that person as it applies to a citizen of a country mentioned in section 1(3) of this Act.
APPENDIX B TO SCHEDULE 1 Provisions to have effect as section 8(1A) and (1B) of British Nationality Act 1948
(1A) Except in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, sub- section (1) above shall not apply to the functions of the Secretary of State as regards registration under section 5A(1) of this Act; and in its application to any of those islands that section shall have effect as if a reference to that island were substituted in section 5A(5) for the first reference to the United Kingdom.
(IB) Subject to subsection (1A) above, section 5A of this Act shall in its application to any colony or protectorate, have effect as if for the references in subsection (3) and in subsection (4)(c) to the United Kingdom there were substituted references to that colony or protec- torate, and as if for the reference to the English or Welsh language in subsection (2)(d) there were substituted a reference to the English language or any other language in current use in that colony or protectorate.
APPENDIX C TO SCHEDULE 1
Provisions to have effect as section 9 of British Nationality Act 1948
9.—(1) A person registered under any of the three last foregoing sections or under section 5A of this Act shall, on taking an oath of allegiance in accordance with subsection (2) below if so required by that subsection, be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by registration as from the date on which he is registered.
SCH. I
1948 c. 56.
(2) A person of full age and capacity shall on registration as mentioned in subsection (1) above, if not already a citizen of a country of which Her Majesty is Queen nor a British subject by virtue of section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1965, take an oath 1965 c. 34. of allegiance in the form specified in the First Schedule to this Act.
SCHEDULE 2
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS AS TO CONTROL ON ENTRY ETC.
PART I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Immigration officers and medical inspectors
1. (1) Immigration officers for the purposes of this Act shall be appointed by the Secretary of State, and he may arrange with the Commissioners of Customs and Excise for the employment of officers of customs and excise as immigration officers under this Act.
(2) Medical inspectors for the purposes of this Act may be appointed by the Secretary of State or, in Northern Ireland, by the Minister of Health and Social Services or other appropriate Minister of the Government of Northern Ireland in pursuance of arrange- ments made between that Minister and the Secretary of State, and shall be fully qualified medical practitioners.
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