{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bahamas-independence-act-1973/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bahamas-independence-act-1973/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/27",
  "legislation_title": "Bahamas Independence Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bahamas-independence-act-1973",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Retention of citizenship of United Kingdom and Colonies by certain persons connected with the Bahamas.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, a person shall not cease to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under section 2 of this Act if he, his father or his father’s father—\n(a) was born in the United Kingdom or in a colony . . .; or\n(b) is or was a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies; or\n(c) was registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; or\n(d) became a British subject by reason of the annexation of any territory included in a colony.\n(2) A person shall not cease to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under the said section 2 if either—\n(a) he was born in a protectorate or protected state; or\n(b) his father or his father’s father was so born and is or at any time was a British subject.\n(3) A woman who immediately before the appointed day is the wife of a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies—\n(a) shall not cease to be such a citizen under the said section 2 unless her husband either does so at the same time or has already done so; and\n(b) if she would, apart from paragraph (a) of this subsection, have ceased to be such a citizen under that section at any time and her husband subsequently ceases to be such a citizen under that section, she shall cease to be such a citizen when her husband does so.\n(4) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, the reference in subsection (1)(b) of this section to a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies shall include a reference to 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.\n(5) In this section—\n(a) references to a colony shall be construed as not including references to any territory which, on the appointed day, is not a colony for the purposes of the British Nationality Act 1948 as that Act has effect on that day, and accordingly do not include references to the Bahamas, and\n(b) references to a protectorate or protected state shall be construed as not including references to any territory which, on the appointed day, is not a protectorate or a protected state (as the case may be) for the purposes of that Act as it has effect on that day;\nand subsection (1) of this section 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 which by virtue of this subsection is excluded from references in this section to a colony, protectorate or protected state.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(1)(a) repealed (8.11.1995) by 1995 c. 44, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II Gp. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1948 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1948 c. 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/27/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:47:27.570732+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}