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DSR 11C

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A British Dependent Territories citizen shall be taken to have acquired his citizenship from a connection with Gibraltar if that citizenship was acquired wholly or partly by reason of any one or more of the following facts:

(1) that he his father or his mother was born, or

deemed to be born through being found abandoned, in Gibraltar; or

(2) that he his father or his mother is or was a

person to whom a certificate of naturalisation as a British Dependent Territories citizen was granted in Gibraltar; or

(3) that he his father or his mother is or was a

person naturalised in Gibraltar before 1 January 1983; or

(4) that he his father or his mother was registered in Gibraltar as a British Dependent Territories citizen or, before 1 January 1983, as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; or

(5) that he his father or his mother was descended from a person who acquired his citizenship wholly or partly by reason of (1), (2), (3) or (4) above or would have done so but for his death; or

(6) in the case of a woman, that she or her mother

was married to a man who acquired his citizenship wholly or partly by reason of (1), (2), (3), (4) or (5) above or would have done so but for his death; or

(7) that he his father or his mother was descended

from a woman who acquired her citizenship wholly or partly by reason of (6) above or would have done so but for her death; or