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DSR 11C

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION for Oral Reply on 24 March 1983.

The Lord Avebury

To ask Her Majesty's Government

whether any of the dependencies have changed their

immigration ordinances since the British Nationality

Act 1981 received the Royal Assent; whether they will

place copies of any such alterations in the library;

whether they will make an estimate of the number of

British dependent territories' citizens who have no

right of entry to any territory for which the United

Kingdom is internationally responsible; and whether they

will produce an analysis of such persons, showing their

respective origins and numbers.

DRAFT REPLY to that portion of the question which reads

"whether they will make an estimated

.... origins

and numbers.'

None. All British Dependent Territories Citizens have the

right of abode in the dependent territory from which they

derive their citizenship.

Notes for Supplementaries

Will British Dependent Territories Citizens have the right

of entry to the United Kingdom and other existing Dependent

Territories?

Yes, as visitors provided they qualify under the current

immigration rules in force in the United Kingdom and other

dependent territories concerned.

Have British Dependent Territories Citizens the right of

/abode