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concerned should be substituted for the United Kingdom and the category
Citizenship amended but otherwise, the questions and answers are equally valid for the dependent territories. The powers of naturalisatio and registration would rest with the individual Governors.
However,
18. Would there be individual citizenships for each dependent territory?
· No - it is a collective citizenship for all the territories. for administrative purposes, for example, in passports issued to indicate the particular dependent territory to which the individual belongs and where he has the right of abode, the name of the territory could be added
the collective citizenship title.
BRITISH OVERSEAS CITIZENSHIP
19. How would British Overseas Citizenship be acquired after the new lay
comes into operation?
There would be no provision for the acquisition of British Overseas Citizenship after the new law comes into operation. The status would be acquired by those CUKCs whose ancestral or residential connections with the United Kingdom or an existing British Dependent Territory are not sufficiently close to qualify them for British citizenship or British Overseas Citizenship. For this reason it would be contrary to the gener principle to be embodied in the new law to include a general provision t enable people with these remote connections to pass on citizenship.
20.
Does that mean that children born to British Overseas Citizen paren
after the new law comes into operation would be unable to acquire their
parents' status?
C
Yes and this does mean that some children of British Overseas Citizens
could be born stateless if they are born in a country which does not gra its citizenship to all persons born there. While account would be taker of the United Kingdom's obligations on the reduction of statelessness th responsibility for remedying this situation would rest primarily on the country of birth.
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