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(iii) A considerable number of persons who, or whose fathers, derive their citizenship from a

connection with a former colony or other dependency but who did not acquire the new country's citizenship automatically at independence.

(iv) Certain persons who have been adopted in the

United Kingdom by a citizen of the United

Kingdom and Colonies.

(c) British Subject without Citizenship

British Subjects without Citizenship are persons born before 1 January 1949 who were British subjects by reason of their connection with former British

India but did not become citizens of India or

Pakistan when those countries introduced their own

citizenships after independence, usually because they were not living in one of them at the time (see also paragraphs 4 and 7 of the paper). (d) British subjects by virtue of section 2 of the

British Nationality Act 1948

These are citizens of the Republic of Ireland, born

before 1 January 1949, who were then British subjects and have remained British subjects by making a formal

claim under section 2 of the 1948 Act.

(e) British subjects by virtue of section 1 of the

British Nationality Act 1965

These are women who have been registered as British subjects under the 1965 Act by reason of their marriage to a British subject without citizenship - (c) above or a British subject by virtue of section 2 of the 1948 Act (d) above.