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Overseas Circular

DSR 11 (Revised)

DRAFT:

minute ettex/teleletter/despatch/notex

FROM:

NATIONALITY AND TREATY DEPARTMENT

DEPARTMENT:

TEL. NO:

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

TO:

Top Secret

All Overseas Posts and Dependent Territories

Secret

Confidential

Restricted

Unclassified

TYPE: Draft/Final 1+

Reference

GNN 340/1(8)

Your Reference

Copies to:

Supply Section, OSTU Passport Office

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PRIVACY MARKING

CAVEAT.

.In Confidence

SUBJECT: BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1981; RUBBER STAMPS FOR

PASSPORTS.

1

Appropriate rubber stamps have now been prepared

to cover the new categories of citizenship created by.

the British Nationality Act 1981. Full sets of these

rubber stamps may be obtained from Supply Section,

Office Services and Transport Unit to whom your orders

should be sent indicating the number of sets you require.

Enclosures-flag(s)...........

2 As indicated in the FCO Circular '0' 98/82, passports

issued after 1 January 1983 will no longer be printed

with the endorsement 'Holder has the right of abode in the

United Kingdom'. It would consequently be necessary to

enter this endorsement on page 5 in respect of any

passports issued to British subjects (as defined in Part IV

of the 1981 Act) who have the right of abode in the

United Kingdom. Diplomatic Service posts who are likely

to issue passports to such categories of persons, and who

do not already have a suitable rubber stamp, may wish

to consider ordering a sufficient number to meet their

needs at the same time as they order the rubber stamps

referred to in paragraph 1.

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