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British Nationality Act 1981

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49Registration and naturalisation under British Nationality Acts 1948 to 1965

(1)After the passing of this Act—

(a)a person shall not be registered under any provision of the existing nationality Acts as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British subject; and

(b)a certificate of naturalisation shall not be granted to a person under any provision of those Acts,

unless—

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

(ii)where applicable, the person in question has taken the oath of allegiance which, but for this section, he would have been required by those Acts to take in connection with the registration or, as the case may be, the grant to him of the certificate.

(2)Any provision of the existing nationality Acts which provides for a person to be entitled to registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British subject shall have effect subject to subsection (1).

(3)A person registered after the passing of this Act under any provision of the existing nationality Acts as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British subject shall be such a citizen by registration or, as the case may be, a British subject by virtue of that provision as from the date on which he is so registered; and a person to whom a certificate of naturalisation is after the passing of this Act granted under any such provision shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by naturalisation as from the date on which the certificate is granted.

(4)The following provisions of the existing nationality Acts, namely—

(a)in the 1948 Act, section 9 and, in section 10(1), the words from “and the person ” onwards ; and

(b)section 1(2) of the [1965 c. 34.] British Nationality Act 1965,

shall not apply in relation to any application for registration or for a certificate of naturalisation under any provision of the existing nationality Acts, whenever made, unless the person to whom that application relates has been registered or, as the case may be, granted such a certificate before the passing of this Act.

(5)In this section “the existing nationality Acts ” means the British Nationality Acts 1948 to 1965.

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