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Article 74 Modifications of British Nationality Acts

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

As from the dissolution of the Federation the British Nationality Acts 1948 and 1958have effect as if—

(a)

in section 1(3) of the Act of 1948 (which, as amended by the Act of 1958, includes the Federation among Commonwealth countries with separate citizenship from that of the United Kingdom and Colonies) for the words “the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland” there were substituted the words “Southern Rhodesia”; and

(b)

any reference in those Acts to a protectorate operated to include the protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and any such reference to a period of residence in a protectorate operated, in relation to those protectorates, to include residence therein before the dissolution of the Federation.

(2)

Notwithstanding anything in the British Nationality Acts 1948 and 1958, any person who immediately before the dissolution of the Federation is a citizen of the Federation but is not a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies shall become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies on the dissolution of the Federation unless the then becomes a citizen of Southern Rhodesia.