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granted under any provision of this Act shall be a citizen of that description as from the date on which the certificate is granted.

PART V

Exercise of

functions of Secretary of

40.—(1) Subject to subsection (3), the Secretary of State may, in the case of any of his functions under this Act with respect to 5 any of the matters mentioned in subsection (2), make arrange-State by

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ments for that function to be exercised—

(a) in any of the Islands, by the Lieutenant-Governor in cases concerning British citizens or British citizenship ; (b) in any dependent territory which is for the time being a colony, by the Governor in cases concerning citizens of the British Dependent Territories or citizenship of the British Dependent Territories.

(2) The said matters are-

(a) registration and naturalisation; and

(b) renunciation, resumption and deprivation of British citizenship or citizenship of the British Dependent Ter- ritories.

(3) Nothing in this section applies in the case of any power to make regulations or rules conferred on the Secretary of State 20 by this Act.

(4) Arrangements under subsection (1) may provide for any such function as is there mentioned to be exercisable only with the approval of the Secretary of State.

Governors and others.

41. The Secretary of State, a Governor or a Lieutenant- Decisions 25 Governor, as the case may be, shall not be required to assign any involving

reason for the grant or refusal of any application under this Act discretion.

the decision on which is at his discretion; and the decision of the Secretary of State or a Governor or Lieutenant-Governor on any such application shall not be subject to appeal to, or review 30 in, any court.

exercise of

42.--(1) Every document purporting to be a notice, certificate, Evidence. order or declaration, or an entry in a register, or a subscription of an oath of allegiance, given, granted or made under this Act or any of the former nationality Acts shall be received in evidence 35 and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been given, granted or made by or on behalf of the person by whom or on whose behalf it purports to have been given, granted or made.

(2) Prima facie evidence of any such document may be given 40 by the production of a document purporting to be certified as a true copy of it by such person and in such manner as may be prescribed.