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21 Right to registration by virtue of father’s citizenship etc.U.K.
A person born in a foreign country within five years after commencement shall be entitled, on an application for his registration as a [British overseas territories citizen] made within the period of twelve months from the date of the birth, to be registered as such a citizen if—
(a)
the requirements referred to in subsection (1)(a) of section 9 are fulfilled in the case of that person’s father, subsection (2)(b) of that section being for the purposes of this paragraph read as if any reference to becoming or remaining a British citizen were a reference to becoming or, as the case may be, remaining a [British overseas territories citizen] ; and
(b)
had that person been born before commencement and become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies as mentioned in subsection (1)(b) of that section, he would at commencement have become a [British overseas territories citizen] by virtue of section 23(1)(b).
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