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Reino Unido 426 Boletín de Documentación |C|E|P|C| Sucania Onlus CGIL – lavoratori immigrati Sucania - http://www.sucania.it - http://www.er.cgil.it/pr Tavola della Pace Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro Milano – Cen- - http://www.tavoladellapace.it tro Immigrati (Italian General Labour Confederation – Cen- tre for Immigrants) Ucodep – Unione e cooperazione per lo sviluppo dei popoli CGIL - http://www.cgil.milano.it/CDLM/CentroImmigrati/ (Union and Cooperation for Peoples’ Development) UCODEP - http://www.ucodep.org Index.htm Ufficio Centrale Studenti Esteri in Italia Consorzio ABN UCSEI - http://www.unimondo.org/soci/ong/ucsei.html - http://www.consorzioabn.it Ufficio Dossier Statistico Immigrazione – Caritas Diocesana Consorzio Europeo per lo Sviluppo della Formazione (Euro- Roma (Immigation Statistical Annals Office – Caritas Rome pean Consortium for Development of Training) Diocese) CESFO - http://www.cesfo.com - http://www.caritasroma.it/immigrazione/ Unione Emigranti Sloveni del Friuli – Venezia Giulia Sloven- Coordinamento Nazionale Enti Locali per la Pace ci Po Svetu – Slovenians in the world - http://www.entilocalipace.it - http://www.lintver.it Federazione agroalimentare industriale Confederazione Italia- Unione Italiana Sport Per tutti Comitato Regionale Emilia- na Sindacati Lavoratori Romagna FAI CISL - http://www.cisl.it UISP - http://www.progettoultra.it “Fondazione “Le città del teatro” Teatro Stabile delle Mar- Unione Volontariato Internazionale Sviluppo e Pace che – Compagnia giovani del teatro stabile nelle Marche” UVISP - http://www.uvisp.org - http://www.stabilemarche.it Xena Centro Scambi e Dinamiche Interculturali (Xena Centre for exchange and intercultural dynamics) Fondazione Cecchini Pace (Cecchini Pace Foundation) Xena - http://www.xena.it FONDCEC - http://www.fondazionececchinipace.it Unione Italiana Lavoratori – Dipartimento politiche migratorie Otros (Italian Union of Workers – Migration Policy Department) Anolf Cosenza UIL - http://www.uil.it Anolf - http://www.cisl.it Unione Italiana Lavoratori-Ufficio stranieri (Italian Union of Centro Educazione Adulti Federazione Unitaria CGIL CISL Workers-office for foreigners) SAVT UIL UIL - http://www.associazioni.milano.it/uilstranieri/index. CEA - http://www.scuolevda.org/agenzie/cenedad/home.htm htm VI. REINO UNIDO VI.1. La condición de ciudadano y de 4A Acquisition by registration: further provision for Brit- extranjero. La British Nationality Act ish overseas territories citizens 4B Acquisition by registration: certain persons without de 1981 other citizenship 4C Acquisition by registration: certain persons born be- tween 1961 and 1983 BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1981 5 Acquisition by registration: nationals for purposes of (1981 c 61) the Community treaties 6 Acquisition by naturalisation ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS Acquisition after commencement: special cases PART I 10 Registration following renunciation of citizenship of UK BRITISH CITIZENSHIP and Colonies Acquisition after commencement Acquisition at commencement Section 11 Citizens of UK and Colonies who are to become Brit- 1 Acquisition by birth or adoption ish citizens at commencement 2 Acquisition by descent Renunciation and resumption 3 Acquisition by registration: minors 4 Acquisition by registration: British overseas territories 12 Renunciation citizens etc 13 Resumption |C|E|P|C| Boletín de Documentación 427 Supplementary 45 Evidence 14 Meaning of British citizen “by descent” 46 Offences and proceedings 47 Legitimated children 48 Posthumous children PART II 49 Registration and naturalisation under British Nationality Acts 1948 to 1965 BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CITIZENSHIP 50 Interpretation 51 Meaning of certain expressions relating to nationality Acquisition after commencement in other Acts and instruments 52 Consequential amendments, transitional provisions, 15 Acquisition by birth or adoption repeals and savings 16 Acquisition by descent : 53 Citation, commencement and extent 17 Acquisition by registration: minors 18 Acquisition by naturalisation SCHEDULES: Acquisition after commencement: special cases Schedule 1.—Requierements for Naturalisation Schedule 2.—Provisions for Reducing Stateless- 22 Right to registration replacing right to resume citizen- ness ship of UK and colonies Schedule 3.—Countries Whose Citizens are Acquisition at commencement Commonwealth Citizens Schedule 5.—Form of Oath of Allegiance 23 Citizens of UK and Colonies who are to become Brit- Schedule 6.—British Overseas Territories ish overseas territories citizens at commencement Schedule 8.—Transitional Provisions Renunciation and resumption Schedule 9.—Repeals 24 Renunciation and resumption An Act to make fresh provision about citizenship and Supplementary nationality, and to amend the Immigration Act 1971 as 25 Meaning of British overseas territories citizen “by de- regards the right of abode in the United Kingdom scent” [30 October 1981] Discrimination In relation to the carrying out of functions PART III exercisable by virtue of this Act, the Race Relations Act 1976, s 71(1) (b) (specified authorities: general statutory duty), Vol BRITISH OVERSEAS CITIZENSHIP 7, tide Civil Rights and Liberties, has effect with the omission 26 Citizens of UK and Colonies who are to become Brit- of the words “equality of opportunity and”; see s 71A(1), (1A) ish Overseas citizens at commencement of that Act, in the same tide. 27 Registration of minors British Nationality Acts 1981 and 1983 By the British 29 Renunciation Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983, s 5(1) post, this Act and that Act may be cited together as the British Nationality Acts 1981 and 1983. PART IV Northern Ireland This Act applies; see s 53(4) post. BRITISH SUBJECTS PART I 30 Continuance as British subjects of existing British sub- jects of certain descriptions BRITISH CITIZENSHIP 31 Continuance as British subjects of certain former citi- zens of Eire Acquisition after commencement 32 Registration of minors 34 Renunciation 1 Acquisition by birth or adoption 35 Circumstances in which British subjects are to lose that (1) A person born in the United Kingdom after commence- status ment[, or m a qualifying territory on or after the appointed day,] shall be a British citizen if at the time of the birth his father or mother is PART V (a) a British citizen; or (b) settled in the United Kingdom [or that territory]. MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTARY (2) A new-born infant who, after commencement, is found abandoned in the United Kingdom[, or on or after the appointed 36 Provisions for reducing statelessness day is found abandoned in a qualifying territory,] shall, unless 37 Commonwealth citizenship the contrary is shown, be deemed for the purposes of subsec- 38 British protected persons tion (1)— 39 Amendment of Immigration Act 1971 (a) to have been born in the United Kingdom after 40 Deprivation of citizenship commencement [or in that territory on or after the 40A Deprivation of citizenship: appeal appointed day]; and 41 Regulations and Orders in Council (b) to have been born to a parent who at the time of 42 Registration and naturalisation: general provisions the birth was a British citizen or settled in the 43 Exercise of functions of Secretary of State by Gover- United Kingdom [or that territory]. nors and others (3) A person born in the United Kingdom after commence- 44 Decisions involving exercise of discretion ment who is not a British citizen by virtue of subsection (1) 428 Boletín de Documentación |C|E|P|C| or (2) shall be entitled to be registered as a British citizen if, Sub-s (5A): substituted (along with sub-s (5)) for sub-s (5) by the while he is a minor— Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999, s 7(1). (a) his father or mother becomes a British citizen or Sub-s (6): words in square brackets inserted by the Adoption (Inter- country Aspects) Act 1999, s 7(2). Sub-s (8): words in square brack- becomes settled in the United Kingdom; and ets inserted by the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999, s 7 (3). (b) an application is made for his registration as a Prospective amendments British citizen. Sub-s (5)(13): words “effected under the law of a country or territory (4) A person born in the United Kingdom after commence- outside the United Kingdom” inserted at end by the Adoption and ment who is not a British citizen by virtue of subsection (1) Children Act 2002, s 137(3), (4) (a), as from a day to be appointed or (2) shall be entitled, on an application for his registration under s 148(1) thereof, Vol 6, title Children. as a British citizen made at any time after he has attained the Sub-s (5A)(b) words or in a designated territory” inserted at end by the Adoption and Children Act 2002, s 137(3), (4) (b), as from a day age of ten years, to be registered as such a citizen if, as regards to be appointed under s 148(1) thereof, Vol 6, title Children. each of the first ten years of that person’s life, the number of Sub-s (8) words in italics repealed by the Adoption and Children Act days on which he was absent from the United Kingdom in that 2002, ss 137(3), (4) (c), 139(3), Sch 5, as from a day to be appointed year does not exceed 90. under s 148(1) thereof, Vol 6, title Children. [(5) Where Sub-s (1) Born in the United Kingdom ... or in a qualifying (a) any court in the United Kingdom [or, on or after territory As to where a person born outside the United Kingdom or a qualifying territory aboard a ship or aircraft is to be deemed to have the appointed day, any court in a qualifying terri- been born, see s 50(7), (7A) post. tory] makes an order authorising the adoption of Sub-s (1): At the time of the birth, etc As to posthumous children, a minor who is not a British citizen; or see s 48 post. (b) a minor who is not a British citizen is adopted Sub-s (1): Settled in the United Kingdom In this connection, see under a Convention adoption, also the Immigration Act 1971, s 8(5A) ante. that minor shall, if the requirements of subsection (5A) are Sub-s (3): Entitled to be registered; application ..
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