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CH, 2

1964 c. 54.

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British Nationality

a citizen of the British Dependent Territories if, on an application for his registration as such a citizen, the Secretary of State is satisfied-

(a) that that person is and always has been stateless; and

(b) that at the time of that person's birth his father or mother 5

was a citizen or subject of a description mentioned in sub- paragraph (3); and

(c) that that person was in a dependent territory (no matter which) at the beginning of the period of three years ending with the date of the application and that the number of 10 days on which he was absent from the dependent territories in that period does not exceed 270.

(3) The descriptions referred to in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) are a British citizen, a citizen of the British Dependent Territories, a British Overseas citizen and a British subject under this Act.

Persons born stateless before commencement

6. (1) A person born before commencement shall be entitled, on an application for his registration under this paragraph, to be so registered if the Secretary of State is satisfied that, if—

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(a) this Act had not been passed, and the enactments repealed 20

or amended by this Act had continued in force accordingly; and

(b) an application for the registration of that person under section 1 of the British Nationality (No. 2) Act 1964 (state- less persons) as a citizen of the United Kingdom and 25 Colonies had been made on the date of the application under this paragraph,

that person would have been entitled under that section to be registered as such a citizen.

(2) A person entitled to registration under this paragraph shall 30 be registered under it as such a citizen as he would have become at commencement if, immediately before commencement, he had been registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under section 1 of the British Nationality (No. 2) Act 1964 on which- ever of the grounds mentioned in subsection (1)(a) to (c) of that 35 section he would have been entitled to be so registered on in the circumstances described in sub-paragraph (1)(a) and (b) of this para- graph.

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