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(4) A person who—
 * (a) immediately before commencement was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of registration under section of the British Nationality Act 1964 (resumption of citizenship); and
 * (b) was so registered otherwise than in a dependent territory; and
 * (c) was so registered by virtue of having an appropriate qualifying connection with a dependent territory or, if a woman, by virtue of having been married to a person who at the time of the registration had or would, if then living, have had such a connection,

shall at commencement become a British Dependent Territories citizen.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4) a person shall be taken to have an appropriate qualifying connection with a dependent territory if he, his father or his father’s father—
 * (a) was born in a dependent territory; or
 * (b) is or was a person naturalised in a dependent territory;
 * (c) was registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies in a dependent territory; or
 * (d) became a British subject by reason of the annexation of any territory included in a dependent territory.

(6) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) references to citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies shall, in relation to a time before the year 1949, be construed as references to British nationality. Renunciation and resumption

24. The provisions of sections 12 and 13 shall apply in relation to British Dependent Territories citizens and British Dependent Territories citizenship as they apply in relation to British citizens and British citizenship. Supplementary

25.—(1) For the purposes of this Act a British Dependent Territories citizen is such a citizen “by descent” if and only if—
 * (a) he is a person born outside the dependent territories after commencement who is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of section 16(1)(a) only or by virtue of registration under section 17(2) or 21; or

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