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BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL: NATURALISATION
19 February 1981
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GNN340/1(27)-E
KATELJ IN LESIKT NO. ZA 4 MAR 1981
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 provides that convictions of a specified kind
are, after a specified period deemed to be 'spent" provided the person concerned has
not been convicted again during that period. Particulars of these "spent" convictions
need not be included in the appropriate section of the application form for citizenship,
and are excluded from consideration of applications for citizenship at discretion.
Our Legal Advisers are currently considering whether specific reference to this needs
to be made in the Bill, in paragraph 9(1)(b)(i) and (ii) to Schedule 1 of the Bill
where periods of detention for "spent" offences would not be regarded as absence from
the United Kingdom.
We need to consider whether parallel provision needs to be made for the dependencies,
in the arrangements for naturalisation as a citizen of the British Dependent.
Territories.
We need to know therefore whether:-
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
any dependency has passed legislation comparable to the Rehabilitation of
Offenders Act 1974;
whether they exclude "spent" offences for (or their equivalent) in
considering applications for citizenship at discretion;
whether they would propose to continue doing so when the British Nationality
Bill comes into force and whether therefore provision should be made for this in paragraph 9(2)(b) of Schedule 1 to the Bill.`·
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