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Section 9 Persons domiciled in Scotland may insist, on an action of declarator, that he is a natural-born subject.F1

Any person domiciled in Scotland, or claiming any heritable or moveable property situate in Scotland, may raise and insist, in an action of declarator before the Court of Session, for the purpose of having it found and declared that he is entitled to be deemed a . . . . . . F2F3Commonwealth citizen; and the said Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such action of declarator, in the same manner and to the same effect, and with the same power to award expenses, as they have in declarators of legitimacy and declarators of bastardy.

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F1

S.9 repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c. 49), s. 226, Sch. 6

F2

Words repealed by British Nationality Act 1948 (c. 56), s. 31, Sch. 4 Pt. I

F3

Words substituted by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), s. 52(6), Sch. 7