Part I
- be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies.
(2) A person shall be entitled, on an application for his registration as a British citizen made (subject to subsection (8)) within six years after commencement, to be registered as such a citizen if he—
- (a) was ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom throughout a period ending at commencement but not amounting to five years; and
- (b) throughout the period from commencement to the date of the application—
- (i) remained ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom; and
- (ii) had the right of abode in the United Kingdom under the 1971 c. 77.Immigration Act 1971; and
- (c) had on the date of the application been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom for the last five years or more.
(3) Subject to subsection (5), if, in the case of an application for the registration of a person under subsection (2) as a British citizen, that person has been engaged in relevant service throughout any period (of whatever length), that period shall for the purposes of subsection (2) be treated as a period throughout which he was ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) “relevant service” means—
- (a) Crown service under the government of the United Kingdom; or
- (b) service under any international organisation of which the United Kingdom or Her Majesty’s government therein is a member; or
- (c) service in the employment of any company or association established in the United Kingdom.
(5) A person shall not be registered under subsection (2) wholly or partly by reason of service within subsection (4)(b) or (c) unless it seems to the Secretary of State fitting that he should be so registered by reason of his close connection with the United Kingdom.
(6) If in the special circumstances of any particular case the Secretary of State thinks fit, he may treat subsection (1) as if—
- (a) the reference to five years after commencement were a reference to eight years after commencement; or
- (b) where subsection (7) applies, as if the reference to five years from the date on which the person to whom the
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