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(2) Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) applies to—
 * (a) Crown service under the government of the United Kingdom; and
 * (b) service of any description for the time being designated under subsection (3).

(3) For the purposes of this section the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument designate any description of service which he considers to be closely associated with the activities outside the United Kingdom of Her Majesty’s government in the United Kingdom.

(4) Any order made under subsection (3) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

3.—(1) If while a person is a minor an application is made for his registration as a British citizen, the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, cause him to be registered as such a citizen.

(2) A person born outside the United Kingdom shall be entitled, on an application for his registration as a British citizen made within the period of twelve months from the date of the birth, to be registered as such a citizen if the requirements specified in subsection (3) or, in the case of a person born stateless, the requirements specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of that subsection, are fulfilled in the case of either that person’s father or his mother (“the parent in question”).

(3) The requirements referred to in subsection (2) are—
 * (a) that the parent in question was a British citizen by descent at the time of the birth; and
 * (b) that the father or mother of the parent in question—
 * (i) was a British citizen otherwise than by descent at the time of the birth of the parent in question; or
 * (ii) became a British citizen otherwise than by descent at commencement, or would have become such a citizen otherwise than by descent at commencement but for his or her death; and
 * (c) that, as regards some period of three years ending with a date not later than the date of the birth—
 * (i) the parent in question was in the United Kingdom at the beginning of that period; and