PART II
1964 c. 22.
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(3) A person who-
British Nationality
(a) immediately before commencement was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of having been registered under subsection (6) of section 12 of the 1948 Act (British subjects before commencement 5 of 1948 Act becoming citizens of United Kingdom and Colonies) otherwise than in a dependent territory; and (b) was so registered on an application under that sub-
section based on the applicant's descent in the male 10 line from a person ("the relevant person") possessing one of the qualifications specified in subsection (1) of that section (birth or naturalisation in the United King- dom and Colonies, or acquisition of the status of British subject by reason of annexation of territory),
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(i) was born or naturalised in a dependent territory; or (ii) became a British subject by reason of the annexation of any territory included in a dependent territory.
(4) A person who-
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British Nationality
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(6) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) references to citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies shall, in relation to a time before the year 1949, be construed as refer- ences to British nationality.
Renunciation and resumption
PART II
Renunciation
21. The provisions of sections 10 and 11 shall apply in rela- tion to citizens of the British Dependent Territories and citizen- and ship of the British Dependent Territories as they apply in resumption. relation to British citizens and British citizenship.
Supplementary
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22. For the purposes of this Act a citizen of the British Depen- dent Territories shall be taken to be such a citizen "by virtue Meaning of of birth in a dependent territory " if, but only if—
citizen of the British
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(a) he was born in a dependent territory and is a citizen of Dependent the British Dependent Territories by virtue of section Territories 13 or registration under paragraph 4 of Schedule 2;
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or
by virtue of birth in a dependent territory ".
(a) immediately before commencement was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of registration under section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1964 (resumption of citizenship); and
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(b) was so registered otherwise than in a dependent ter-
ritory; and
(c) was so registered by virtue of having an appropriate qualifying connection with a dependent territory or, if a woman, by virtue of having been married to a 30 person who at the time of the registration had or would, if then living, have had such a connection, shall at commencement become a citizen of the British Depend- ent Territories.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (4) a person shall be taken 35 to have an appropriate qualifying connection with a dependent territory if he, his father or his father's father-
(b) though born outside the dependent territories, he is a citizen of the British Dependent Territories by virtue of section 14(1)(b); or
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(c) though born outside the dependent territories, he is a
person so born before commencement----
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(a) was born in a dependent territory; or
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(b) is or was a person naturalised in a dependent territory;
or
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(c) was registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and
Colonies in a dependent territory; or
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(d) became a British subject by reason of the annexation
of any territory included in a dependent territory.
(i) who was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies immediately before commencement and at commencement became a citizen of the British Dependent Territories; and
(ii) whose father was at the time of the birth serv- ing outside the dependent territories in Crown service under the government of a dependent territory or service of any description at any time designated under section 14(3), his recruitment for the service in question having taken place in a dependent ter- ritory (no matter which); or
(d) he was born in a dependent territory on or after 1st January 1949 and before commencement, and became
a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at birth by virtue of section 4 of the 1948 Act (citizenship by birth); or
(e) he was born in a dependent territory before 1st January 1949, became a British subject at birth, and on 1st January 1949 became a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of section 12(1)(a) of the 1948 Act; or
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