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TELEGRAM NUMBER 127 OF 10 FEBRUARY

YOUR TELNO 119: NATIONALITY BILL: BIRTH IN BDT

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1. AMENDMENTS ARE NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE STATELESSNESS

PROVISIONS IN SCHEDULE II BUT TO COMPLEMENT THEM AND ARE AN ALTERNATIVE TO CLAUSE I(1)(B).

2.

A FURTHER AMENDMENT TABLED BY THE GOVERNMENT MAKES PROVISION

FOR TRANSMISSION OF CITIZENSHIP BY BRITISH CITIZENS BY

NATURALISATION OR REGISTRATION.

3. THE AMENDMENTS ARE:

'(1) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ACT A BRITISH CITIZEN IS A BRITISH

CITIZEN BY DESCENT' IF AND ONLY IF:

(A) HE WAS BORN AFTER COMMENCEMENT AND IS A BRITISH CITIZEN BY

VIRTUE OF SECTION 2(1)(A) OR REGISTRATION UNDER SECTION

3(2): OR

(B) HE IS A PERSON BORN OUTSIDE THE UNITED KINGDOM BEFORE

COMMENCEMENT WHO BECAME A BRITISH CITIZEN AT COMMENCEMENT

AND IMMEDIATELY BEFORE COMMENCEMENT WAS EITHER:

(I) A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND COLONIES BY VIRTUE OF SECTION 5 OF THE 1948 ACT (CITIZENSHIP BY DESCENT) OTHER

THAN ONE WHOSE FATHER WAS AT THE TIME OF THE BIRTH SERVING OUTSIDE THE UNITED KINGDOM IN SERVICE OF A DESCRIPTION MENTIONED IN SUBSECTION (2), HIS RECRUITMENT FOR THE SERVICE

IN QUESTION HAVING TAKEN PLACE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: OR

(II) A PERSON WHO, UNDER ANY PROVISION OF THE BRITISH

NATIONALITY ACTS 1948 TO 1965, WAS DEEMED FOR THE PURPOSES

OF THE PROVISO TO SECTION 5(1) OF THE 1948 ACT TO BE A

CITIZEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND COLONIES BY DESCENT ONLY,

OR WOULD HAVE BEEN SO DEEMED IF MALE.

(2) THE DESCRIPTIONS OF SERVICE REFERRED TO IN SUBSECTION (1)(B) (I) ARE:

(A) CROWN SERVICE UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM: AND

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