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PART II

Right to registration replacing right to

resume

citizenship

of U.K. and Colonies.

1964 c. 22.

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British Nationality

(b) that man became a citizen of the British Dependent Territories at commencement and did not at any time in the period from commencement to the date of the application under this subsection cease to be such a citizen as a result of a declaration of renunciation; and 5 (c) she remained married to him throughout that period.

(2) On an application for her registration as a citizen of the British Dependent Territories made within two years after com- mencement the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, cause a woman to be registered as such a citizen if—

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(a) immediately before commencement she would (if she had applied for it) have been entitled under section 6(2) of the 1948 Act to be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of having been married to a man to whom she is no longer married 15 on the date of the application under this subsection; and

(b) that man became a citizen of the British Dependent Territories at commencement or would have done so but for his death.

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19.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall be entitled, on an application for his registration as a citizen of the British Dependent Territories, to be registered as such a citizen if the Secretary of State is satisfied that immediately before com- mencement he would (had he applied for it) have been entitled 25 under section 1(1) of the British Nationality Act 1964 (resump- tion of citizenship) to be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of having an appropriate qualifying connection with a dependent territory or, if a woman, by virtue of having been married before commencement to a 30 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 a dependent 35 territory if he, his father or his father's father-

(a) was born in that territory; or

(b) is or was a person naturalised in that territory; or

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

Colonies in that territory; or

(d) became a British subject by reason of the annexation of

any territory included in that territory.

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