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15.

Article 2(1)(e) refers to BDTCs who are such

through a grandparental connection. This accords

with section 23(1)(b) of the British Nationality Act

1981, which provides that a CUKC born to a person who

was a CUKC by his or one of his parent's birth,

naturalisation or registration in a dependent

territory became a BDTC on 1 January 1983.

16.

Article 2 (1) (f) refers to women who became

BDTCS by marriage in the circumstances set out in

section 23 (1) (c) of the British Nationality Act

1981. This provides that a woman who was a CUCK

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immediately before 1 January 1983 became a BDTC on

that date if she was then, or had at any time been

the wife of a man who became a BDTC on 1 January

1983, or who would have done so but for his death.

17.

Article 2 (2) defines the term 'registration'

in paragraph (1). Were the term 'registered' to be

left undefined there could be some doubt whether it

included registration as a citizen of the United

Kingdom and Colonies under the British Nationality

Act 1948.