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PART V

1953 c. 20.

1953 c. 37.

1965 c. 49.

Registration and

naturalisation: general provisions.

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British Nationality

(5) Subsection (4) applies to

(a) the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, the Regis- tration Service Act 1953 and the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965; and (b) so much of any Northern Ireland legislation for the 5

time being in force (whether passed or made before or after commencement) as relates to the registration of births and deaths.

(6) The power to make regulations under subsection (1) or (2) shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

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(7) Any regulations or Order in Council made under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolu- tion of either House of Parliament.

39.-(1) Subject to subsection (2)—

(a) a person shall not be registered under any provision of 15

this Act as a citizen of any description or as a British subject; and

(b) a certificate of naturalisation shall not be granted to a

person under any provision of this Act,

unless

20 (i) any fee payable by virtue of this Act in connection with the registration or, as the case may be, the grant of the certificate has been paid; and

(ii) the person concerned has taken an oath of allegiance in

the form indicated in Schedule 5.

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(2) So much of subsection (1) as requires the taking of an oath of allegiance shall not apply to a person who

(a) is not of full age; or

(b) is already a British citizen, a citizen of the British

Dependent Territories, a British Overseas citizen, a 30 British subject, or a citizen of any country of which Her Majesty is Queen.

(3) Any provision of this Act which provides for a person to be entitled to registration as a citizen of any description or as a British subject shall have effect subject to the preceding provisions 35 of this section.

(4) A person registered under any provision of this Act as a British citizen, or as a citizen of the British Dependent Ter- ritories, or as a British Overseas citizen, or as a British subject, shall be a citizen of that description or, as the case may be, a 40 British subject as from the date on which he is so registered.

(5) A person to whom a certificate of naturalisation as a British citizen or as a citizen of the British Dependent Territories is