TNAG-1188-FCO40-1490-Implications-for-Hong-Kong-of-changes-in-the-British-nationa-1982 — Page 166

DRAFT:

minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

FROM:

DEPARTMENT:

Geographical Departments

TEL. NO:

A

TYPE: Draft/Final 1+

Reference

The Falkland Islands

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

TO: Officers Administering the

Governments of:

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CAVEAT.....

Turks and Caicos Islands

St Helena

St Kitts-Nevis

and BGR Bridgetown (for information) Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Montserrat, Pitcairn

SUBJECT: BNA 1981 AND THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN DEPENDENT

TERRITORIES

1. Ministers intend that the commencement date of the

BNA 1981 will be 1 January 1983. Part II of the

Act sets out clearly those categories of persons who will acquire British Dependent Territories citizenship (BDTC)

after commencement and those who will become BDTC at

commencement. Generally they fall into the following categories:-

Permanent Arrangements

Persons born after commencement

(i) Persons born in a dependent territory to a

parent (mother or father) who at the time of

birth is a BDTC;

(ii) Persons born in a dependent territory to a parent

who although not a BDTC is settled in the territory;

(iii)

(iv)

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Persons born outside the dependent territories to a parent who is at the time of birth, a BDTC otherwise than by descent;

Persons registered or naturalised under any of the provisions of Sections 17-22 of the Act.

Transitional Arrangements

commencement of the Act

Persons born before

(i) Those citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies

/ (CUKC)