CONFIDENTIAL
still a protected state in a limited sense, there are now no territories under British protection, and the number of British Protected Persons remaining is thought to be about 140,000. It will be proposed in the Bill that the status shall be retained, and the Bill will include the power to regulate it by Order in Council. The current Order provides that on acquiring another nationality by voluntary act a British Protected Person shall lose that status, and it is intended to continue this provision.
Miscellaneous Provisions
113. It will be necessary to include in the Act a number of provisions necessary to the working of it and these are likely to be on the same general lines as those contained in the 1948 Act. They will, among other things, give power to the Secretary of State to make regulations to delegate certain of his powers to Governors of the dependencies and Lieutenant-Governors of the Islands; to provide that people acquiring any of our citizenships who are not already citizens of a country of which Her Majesty is Queen must take an oath of allegiance before the grant of citizenship becomes effective; to prescribe penalties in conviction of making false statements in connection with applications; and for the charging of fees.
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