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 4 Ch. 35

EXEMPTIONS FROM OPERATION OF S. 2(2) OF ACT


 * 1. Subject to paragraph 5 of this Schedule, a person shall not cease to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under section 2(2) of this Act if he, his father or his father's father-


 * (a) was born in the United Kingdom or in a colony; or


 * (b) is or was a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies; or


 * (c) was registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; or


 * (d) became a British subject by reason of the annexation of any territory included in a colony.


 * 2. A person shall not cease to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under section 2(2) of this Act if he was born in a protectorate or protected state, or if his father or his father's father was so born and is or at any time was a British subject.


 * 3. A woman who is the wife of a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies shall not cease to be such a citizen under section 2(2) of this Act unless her husband does so.


 * 4, Subject to paragraph 5 of this Schedule, the reference in paragraph 1(b) of this Schedule to a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies shall include a person who would, if living immediately before the commencement of the British Nationality Act 1948, have become a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of section 32(6) of that Act (which relates to persons given local naturalisation in a colony or protectorate before the commencement of that Act).


 * 5. Any reference in paragraph 1 or 2 of this Schedule to a colony, protectorate or protected state shall, subject to the following paragraph, be construed as a reference to a territory which is a colony, protectorate or protected state on the appointed day; and paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall not apply to a person by virtue of any certificate of naturalisation granted or registration effected by the Governor or government of a territory outside the United Kingdom which is not a colony, protectorate or protected state on the appointed day.


 * 6. The protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland shall be excepted from the operation of any reference in paragraph 2 or paragraph 5 of this Schedule to a protectorate.

PROVISIONS REFERRED TO IN S. 3(2) OF ACT


 * 1. References in the following enactments, that is to say-


 * (a) the First Schedule to the Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957, and the enactments amended by that Schedule,


 * (b) section 2(4) of the Import Duties Act 1958,


 * (c) section 8(2) of the Imperial Institute Act 1925, as amended by the Commonwealth Institute Act 1958,