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1978 c. 30.

Citation,

commence- ment and extent.

1971 c. 77.

1967 c. 4.

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British Nationality

(4) Any Order in Council made under subsection (2) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(5) Any provision made by Order in Council under sub- section (2) after commencement may be made with retrospec- 5 tive effect as from commencement or any later date.

(6) The enactments specified in Schedule 7 shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified, being amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.

(7) This Act shall have effect subject to the transitional pro- 10 visions contained in Schedule 8.

(8) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 9 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(9) Without prejudice to section 51, nothing in this Act 15 affects the operation, in relation to any time before commence- ment, of any statutory provision passed or made before com- mencement.

(10) Nothing in this Act shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of sections 16 and 17 of the Interpretation Act 1978 20 (which relate to the effect of repeals).

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(11) In this section modifications" includes additions, omis- sions and alterations.

53.—(1) This Act may be cited as the British Nationality Act 1981.

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(2) This Act, except the provisions mentioned in subsection (3), shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and refer- ences to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as references to the beginning of that day.

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(3) Section 49 and this section shall come into force on the passing of this Act.

(4) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.

(5) The provisions of this Act, except those mentioned in sub- section (7), extend to the islands and all dependent territories; 35 and section 36 of the Immigration Act 1971 (power to extend provisions of that Act to Islands) shall apply to the said excepted provisions as if they were provisions of that Act.

(6) For the purposes of section 3(3) of the West Indies Act 1967 it is hereby declared that the provisions of this Act, except 40 those mentioned in subsection (7), extend to all associated states.

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(7) The provisions referred to in subsections (5) and (6) are—

(a) section 39 and Schedule 4;

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(b) section 52(7) and Schedule 8 so far as they relate to

the Immigration Act 1971; and

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(c) section 52(8) and Schedule 9 so far as they relate to provisions of the Immigration Act 1971 other than Schedule 1.