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British Nationality

PART I his registration as a British citizen made (subject to subsection (5)) within six years after commencement, to be registered as such a citizen if he satisfies the Secretary of State that he--

Right to registration replacing right to

resume

citizenship of U.K. and Colonies.

1964 c. 22.

Citizens of U.K. and Colonies

who are to

become

British

citizens at

commence- ment.

1971 c. 77.

(a) was settled in the United Kingdom throughout the

period from commencement to the date of the appli- 5 cation; and

(b) was a British protected person on the date of the appli- cation and had on that date been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom for the last five years or more. (5) If in the special circumstances of any particular case the 10 Secretary of State thinks fit, he may treat subsection (1), sub- section (3) or subsection (4) as if the reference to six years after commencement were a reference to eight years after commence-

ment.

8. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall be entitled, on 15 an application for his registration as a British citizen, to be regi- stered as such a citizen if the Secretary of State is satisfied that immediately before commencement he would (had he applied for it) have been entitled under section 1(1) of the British Nationality Act 1964 (resumption of citizenship) to be registered 20 as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of having an appropriate qualifying connection with the United Kingdom or, if a woman, by virtue of having been married before commencement to a person who has, or would if living have, such a connection.

(2) A person shall not be entitled to registration under this section on more than one occasion.

(3) For the purposes of this section a person shall be taken to have an appropriate qualifying connection with the United Kingdom if he, his father or his father's father-

(a) was born in the United Kingdom; or

(b) is or was a person naturalised in the United Kingdom;

or

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(c) was registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and

Colonies in the United Kingdom or in a country which 35 at the time was mentioned in section 1(3) of the 1948 Act.

Acquisition at commencement

9.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person who immediately before commencement-

(a) was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies;

and

(b) had the right of abode in the United Kingdom under

the Immigration Act 1971 as then in force, shall at commencement become a British citizen.

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