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British Nationality

Acquisition at commencement

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PART II

20.—(1) A person shall at commencement become a citizen Citizens of of the British Dependent Territories if—

U.K. and Colonies who

(a) immediately before commencement he was a citizen are to

of the United Kingdom and Colonies who had that become citizenship by his birth, naturalisation or registration citizens of the in a dependent territory; or

British Dependent

(b) he was immediately before commencement a citizen of Territories at

the United Kingdom and Colonies, and was born to a parent—

(i) who at the time of the birth ("the material time") was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; and

(ii) who either had that citizenship at the material time by his birth, naturalisation or registra- tion in a dependent territory or was himself born to a parent who at the time of that birth so had that citizenship; or

(c) being a woman, she was immediately before commence-

ment a citizen of the

the United Kingdom and Colonies and either was then, or had at any time been, the wife of a man who under paragraph (a) or (b) becomes a citizen of the British Dependent Terri- tories at commencement or would have done so but for his death.

(2) A person shall at commencement become a citizen of the British Dependent Territories if-

(a) immediately before commencement he was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of registra- tion under section 7 of the 1948 Act (minor children)

commence- ment.

or section 1 of the British Nationality (No. 2) Act 1964 1964 c. 54. (stateless persons); and

(b) he was so registered otherwise than in a dependent terri-

tory; and

(c) his father or mother (in the case of a person registered under the said section 7) or his mother (in the case of a person registered under the said section 1)—

(i) was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Col- onies at the time of the registration or would have been such a citizen at that time but for his or her death; and

(ii) becomes a citizen of the British Dependent Territories at commencement or would have done so but for his or her death.