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CONFIDENTIAL

STANDING COMMITTEE F

BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL

CONFIDENTIAL

Acquisition by registration: citizens of the British Dependent

Territories etc.

To move the following Clause:-

*(1) This section applies to any person who is a

citizen of the British Dependent Territories, a British

Overseas citizen, a British subject under this Act or a

British protected person.

(2) A person to whom this section applies shall be

entitled, on an application for his registration as a British

citizen, to be registered as such a citizen if the Secretary

of State is satisfied that the following requirements are

satisfied in the case of that person, namely

(a)

that he was in the United Kingdom at the

beginning of the period of five years

ending with the date of the application

and that the number of days on which he

was absent from the United Kingdom in

that period does not exceed 450; and

(b) that the number of days on which he was

absent from the United Kingdom in the

period of twelve months so ending does

not exceed 90; and

(c) that he was not at any time in the period

of twelve months so ending subject under