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PART IV

Registration

of minor children.

Registration of certain

alien women entitled to registration as British

subjects

immediately

before

commence-

ment.

1965 c. 34.

Renunciation.

Circumstances

in which

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British Nationality

(3) If at any time after commencement a citizen of the Republic of Ireland who is within subsection (1) but is not a British subject by virtue of subsection (2) gives notice in writing to the Secretary of State claiming to remain a British subject on either or both of the following grounds, namely

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(a) that he is or has been in Crown Service under the

government of the United Kingdom; and

(b) that he has associations by way of descent, residence or otherwise with the United Kingdom or with any dependent territory,

he shall as from that time be a British subject by virtue of this subsection.

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(4) A person who is a British subject by virtue of subsection (2) or (3) shall be deemed to have remained a British subject from 1st January 1949 to the time when (whether already a 15 British subject by virtue of the said section 2 or not) he became a British subject by virtue of that subsection.

29. If while a person is a minor an application is made for his registration as a British subject, the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, cause him to be registered as a British 20 subject.

30. A woman who immediately before commencement was the wife of a British subject shall be entitled, on an application for her registration as a British subject made within two years after commencement, to be registered as a British subject if-25

(a) immediately before commencement she would (if she had applied for it) have been entitled under section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1965 to be registered as a British subject by virtue of her marriage to the man who was then her husband; and

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(b) on the date of the application under this section that

man is a British subject; and

(c) she remained married to him throughout the period

from commencement to that date.

31. The provisions of section 10 shall apply in relation to 35 British subjects and the status of a British subject as they apply in relation to British citizens and British citizenship.

32. A person who under this Act is a British subject other- wise than by virtue of section 28 shall cease to be such a subject British subjects if, in whatever circumstances and whether under this Act or 40

otherwise, he acquires any other citizenship or nationality whatever.

are to lose

that status.