PART I
Registration by virtue of marriage.
British Nationality
(b) throughout the period from commencement to the date
of the application-
(i) remained ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom; and
(ii) had the right of abode in the United Kingdom 5 5 under the Immigration Act 1971; and
(c) had on the date of the application been ordinarily resident
in the United Kingdom for the last five years or more. (3) Subject to subsection (5), if, on an application for the regis- tration of a person under subsection (2) as a British citizen, that 10 person satisfies the Secretary of State that he was engaged in relevant service throughout any period (of whatever length), that period shall for the purposes of subsection (2) be treated as a period throughout which he was ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) "relevant service
means-
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(b) that man became a British citizen at commencement and did not at any time in the period from commence- ment to the date of the application under this subsec- tion cease to be such a citizen as a result of a declara- tion of renunciation; and
(c) she remained married to him throughout that period.
(2) On an application for her registration as a British citizen made within five years after commencement, the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, cause a woman to be registered as such 10 a citizen if—
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(a) Crown service under the government of the United
Kingdom; or
(b) service under any international organisation of which 20
the United Kingdom or Her Majesty's government therein is a member; or
(c) service in the employment of any company or associ-
ation established in the United Kingdom.
(5) A person shall not be registered under subsection (2) 25 wholly or partly by reason of service within subsection (4)(b) or (c) unless it seems to the Secretary of State fitting that he should be so registered by reason of his close connection with the United Kingdom.
(6) If in the special circumstances of any particular case the 30 Secretary of State thinks fit, he may treat subsection (2) as if the reference to six years after commencement were a reference to eight years after commencement.
7.—(1) A woman who immediately before commencement was the wife of a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies 35 shall be entitled, on an application for her registration as a British citizen made within five years after commencement, to be registered as a British citizen if
(a) immediately before commencement she would (if she
had applied for it) have been entitled under section 6(2) 40 of the 1948 Act to be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of her mar- riage to the man who was then her husband; and
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(a) immediately before commencement she would (if she had applied for it) have been entitled under section 6(2) of the 1948 Act to be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of having been married to a man to whom she is no longer married on the date of the application under this subsection; and
(b) that man became a British citizen at commencement
or would have done so but for his death.
(3) On an application for her registration as a British citizen made within five years after commencement by a woman who at the time of the application is married, the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, cause her to be registered as such a citizen if—
(a) immediately before commencement she would (if she had applied for it) have been entitled under section 6(2) of the 1948 Act to be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of her being or having been married to the man who is her husband on the date of the application under this subsection ; and
(b) that man either-
(i) became a British citizen at commencement but has ceased to be such a citizen as a result of a declaration of renunciation; or
(ii) would have become a British citizen at com- mencement but for his having ceased to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies as a result of a declaration of renunciation.
PART I
8.-(1) A person born in a foreign country within five years Right to
40 after commencement shall be entitled, on an application for his registration by
registration as a British citizen made within the period of twelve virtue of
father's months from the date of the birth, to be registered as such a citizen if the Secretary of State is satisfied—
citizenship etc.
(a) that the requirements specified in subsection (2) are ful-
filled in the case of that person's father; and
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