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1978 No. 1030

DOMINICA

The Dominica Modification of Enactments Order 1978

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Laid before Parliament

Coming into Operation

25th July 1978

2nd August 1978

3rd November 1978

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 25th day of July 1978

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas the status of association of Dominica with the United Kingdom is terminated as from the date on which this Order comes into operation and it is necessary or expedient in consequence of that event to amend or modify certain enactments as hereinafter provided:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in Her in that behalf by sections 13(2) and 14 of the West Indies Act 1967(a), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

Citation and commencement

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Dominica Modification of Enact- ments Order 1978.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on 3rd November 1978 (hereinafter called "the appointed day”).

British Nationality Acts

2. (1) On and after the appointed day the British Nationality Acts 1948 to 1965 shall have effect as if in section 1(3) of the British Nationality Act 1948(b) (Commonwealth countries having separate citizenship) there were added at the end the words “and Dominica”.

(2) Except as provided by article 3 of this Order, any person who im- mediately before the appointed day is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies shall on that day cease to be such a citizen if he becomes on that day a citizen of Dominica.

(a) 1967 c. 4.

(b) 1948 c. 56.