Part V
- (ii) the person concerned has within the prescribed time taken an oath of allegiance in the form indicated in Schedule 5.
(2) So much of subsection (1) as requires the taking of an oath of allegiance shall not apply to a person who—
- (a) is not of full age; or
- (b) is already a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British subject, or a citizen of any country of which Her Majesty is Queen.
(3) Any provision of this Act which provides for a person to be entitled to registration as a citizen of any description or as a British subject shall have effect subject to the preceding provisions of this section.
(4) A person registered under any provision of this Act as a British citizen, or as a British Dependent Territories citizen or as a British Overseas citizen, or as a British subject, shall be a citizen of that description or, as the case may be, a British subject as from the date on which he is so registered.
(5) A person to whom a certificate of naturalisation as a British citizen or as a British Dependent Territories citizen is granted under any provision of this Act shall be a citizen of that description as from the date on which the certificate is granted.
Exercise of functions of Secretary of State by Governors and others. 43.—(1) Subject to subsection (3), the Secretary of State may, in the case of any of his functions under this Act with respect to any of the matters mentioned in subsection (2), make arrangements for that function to be exercised—
- (a) in any of the Islands, by the Lieutenant-Governor in cases concerning British citizens or British citizenship;
- (b) in any dependent territory which is for the time being a colony, by the Governor in cases concerning British Dependent Territories citizens or British Dependent Territies citizenship.
(2) The said matters are
- (a) registration and naturalisation; and
- (b) renunciation, resumption and deprivation of British citizenship or British Dependent Territories citizenship.
(3) Nothing in this section applies in the case of any power to make regulations or rules conferred on the Secretary of State by this Act.
(4) Arrangements under subsection (1) may provide for any