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GLOSSARY

ANNEX

1.

This glossary is intended merely as an explanation of the various terms and expressions used in the paper; it has no legal authority as an interpretation of those terms or expressions.

2.

The following terms and expressions are used in the British Nationality Acts.

(a) British subject/Commonwealth citizen

These terms are synonymous. Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies and citizens of the independent

Commonwealth countries all hold the additional status of British subject/Commonwealth citizen. There are also persons whose basic status is British Subject and who do not possess the citizenship of any Commonwealth country (see references below to British subjects without citizenship, British subjects by virtue of section 2 of the British Nationality Act 1948, and British subjects by virtue of section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1965). (b) Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies

This status is held by:

(i)

persons who, or whose fathers, were born, naturalised, or registered under the British Nationality Acts in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, or in any of the remaining colonies, (except Southern Rhodesia, which since 1950 has had its own citizenship), or in any of the Associated States in the West Indies.

(ii) persons born in foreign countries whose fathers

were citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent and whose births have been registered

at a British Consulate.