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much a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies as a similar person who was domiciled in England or Scotland, We accordingly propose, after consultation with the Attorney- General, that the Lord Chancellor should move the following new Clause in the resumed Committee proceedings on the Ireland Bill:-

6.

"So much of subsection (4) of section twelve of the British Nationality Act, 1948,

1948, as prevented a person becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies if he was at the date of the commencement of that Act a citizen of Eire, and so much of subsection (1) of section thirteen of that Act as prevented a person remaining a British subject without citizenship if he was at that date a citizen of Eire, shall not be deemed to have applied to any person born before the sixth day of December nineteen hundred and twenty-two unless either

(a) he was, on the said sixth day of December,

domiciled in the part of Ireland which now forms the Republic of Ireland;

(b)

(e)

or

he was, on or after the tenth day of April

nineteen hundred and thirty-five, and before the date of the commencement of that Act, permanently resident in that part of Ireland;

or

he had, before the date of the commencement of

that Act, been registered as a citizen of Eire under the laws of that part of Ireland relating to citizenship.

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We also propose to send a message to the Government of the Irish Republic before the Committee proceedings begin informing them that this new Clause is to be moved.

28TH MAY, 1949.

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