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GRS 292

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DESKBY 250100Z

FM FCO 251710Z NOV 82

TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG

TELEGRAM NUMBER 994 OF 24 NOVEMBER

PERSONAL FOR GOVERNOR FROM CLIFT

1.

HKK 340/1

mù mape byli Afzolu

26/11

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TEXT OF OPERATIVE CLAUSE: OF BRITISH NATIONALITY (FALKLAND

ISLANDS) AMENDMENT BILL IS:

BEGINS:

1. THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1981 SHALL BE AMENDED BY

INSERTING AFTER SECTION 11 THE FOLLOWING SECTION-

'FALKLAND

ISLANDS

RESIDENTS.

11A.-(1) A PERSON WHO IMMEDIATELY BEFORE COMMENCE-

MENT-

(A) WAS A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND

COLONIES: AND

(B) WAS ORDINARILY RESIDENT IN OR ONE OF WHOSE

PARENTS WAS SETTLED IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS,

SHALL AT COMMENCEMENT BECOME A BRITISH CITIZEN.

(2) A PERSON BORN IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS AFTER

COMMENCEMENT SHALL BE A BRITISH CITIZEN IF AT THE

TIME OF THE BIRTH HIS FATHER OR MOTHER IS A BRITISH

CITIZEN.

(3) A NEW-BORN INFANT WHO, AFTER COMMENCEMENT,

IS FOUND ABANDONED IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS SHALL,

UNLESS THE CONTRARY IS SHOWN, BE DEEMED FOR THE

PURPOSES OF SUBSECTION (2)-

(A) TO HAVE BEEN BORN IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS

AFTER COMMENCEMENT: AND

(B) TO HAVE BEEN BORN TO A PARENT WHO AT THE TIME

OF THE BIRTH WAS A BRITISH CITIZEN.

(4) WHERE AFTER COMMENCEMENT AN ORDER AUTHORISING

THE ADOPTION OF A MINOR WHO IS NOT A BRITISH CITIZEN

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