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British Nationality Bill continued

Mr Timothy Raison

Mr Timothy Raison

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Schedule 2, page 46, line 35, leave out paragraph 2.

Mr Roy Hattersley

Mr John Tilley

Mr George Morton

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Schedule 2, page 46, line 40, leave out from 'stateless' to end of line 46.

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Schedule 2, page 47, line 46, leave out the United Kingdom' and insert both the

United Kingdom and the dependent territories'.

Mr Timothy Raison

Schedule 2, page 47, line 48, leave out sub-paragraph (2) and insert—

'(2) A person entitled to registration under this paragraph-

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Schedule 2, page 47, line 20, leave out paragraph 4 and insert-

'Persons born in the United Kingdom or a dependent territory after commencement

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4.- (1) A person born in the United Kingdom or a dependent territory after com- mencement shall be entitled, on an application for his registration under this paragraph, to be so registered if the Secretary of State is satisfied-

(a) that he is and always has been stateless; and

(b) that on the date of the application he had attained the age of ten but was under

the age of twenty-two; and

(c) that he was in the United Kingdom or a dependent territory (no matter which) at the beginning of the period of five years ending with that date and that (subject to paragraph 7) the number of days on which he was absent from both the United Kingdom and the dependent territories in that period does not exceed 450.

(2) A person entitled to registration under this paragraph-

(a) shall be registered under it as a British citizen if the Secretary of State is satisfied that, in the period of five years mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), the number of days wholly or partly spent by him in the United Kingdom exceeds the number of days wholly or partly spent by him in the dependent territories; (b) in any other case, shall be registered under it as a citizen of the British Dependent

territories.'.

Mr Timothy Raison

(a) shall be registered under it as a citizen or subject of a description available to

him in accordance with sub-paragraph (2A); and

(b) if more than one description is so available to him, shall be registered under this paragraph as a citizen of whichever one or more of the descriptions so available to him is or are stated in the application under this paragraph to be wanted. (2A) For the purposes of this paragraph the descriptions of citizen or subject available to a person entitled to registration under this paragraph are--

(a) in the case of a person whose father or mother was at the time of that person's birth a citizen of a description mentioned in sub-paragraph (3), any description of citizen so mentioned which applied to his father or mother at that time; (b) in any other case, a British subject under this Act.”.

Mr Timothy Raison

Schedule 2, page 48, line 13, leave out ' and (2)' and insert ‘to (2A)'.

Mr Timothy Raison

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Schedule 2, page 48, line 38, at end insert-

Supplementary

7. If in the special circumstances of any particular case the Secretary of State thinks fit, he may for the purposes of paragraph 4 or 5 treat the person who is the subject of the application as fulfilling the requirement specified in sub-paragraph (1)(c) of that para- graph although the number of days on which he was absent from both the United King- dom and the dependent territories in the period there mentioned exceeds 450.".

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Schedule 2, page 47, line 36, leave out from 'entitled' to 'the' in line 38 and insert ', on an application for his registration under this paragraph, to be so registered if '.

Mr Alexander Lyon

Mr Timothy Raison

Page 51, line 1, leave out Schedule 5.

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Schedule 2, page 47, line 43, after 'Kingdom', insert

matter which)".

or a dependent territory (no

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Mr Timothy Raison

Mr J. Enoch Powell

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Schedule 2, page 47, line 45, after 'that', insert' (subject to paragraph 7)'.

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Schedule 6, page 51, line 23, at end insert 'Channel Islands'.