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58c. 61
British Nationality Act 1981

Sch. 2

that person would have been entitled under that section to be registered as such a citizen.

(2) A person entitled to registration under this paragraph shall be registered under it as such a citizen as he would have become at commencement if, immediately before commencement, he had been registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under section 1 of the 1964 c. 54.British Nationality (No. 2) Act 1964 on whichever of the grounds mentioned in subsection (1)(a) to (c) of that section he would have been entitled to be so registered on in the circumstances described in sub-paragraph (1)(a) and (b) of this paragraph.

Supplementary

6. If in the special circumstances of any particular case the Secretary of State thinks fit, he may for the purposes of paragraph 3 or 4 treat the person who is the subject of the application as fulfilling the requirement specified in sub-paragraph (1)(c) of that paragraph although the number of days on which he was absent from both the United Kingdom and the dependent territories in the period there mentioned exceeds the number there mentioned.

Section 37.

SCHEDULE 3
Countries Whose Citizens are Commonwealth Citizens

Antigua and Barbuda Mauritius
Australia Nauru
The Bahamas New Zealand
Bangladesh Nigeria
Barbados Papua New Guinea
Belize Saint Lucia
Botswana Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Canada
Republic of Cyprus Seychelles
Dominica Sierra Leone
Fiji Singapore
The Gambia Solomon Islands
Ghana Sri Lanka
Grenada Swaziland
Guyana Tanzania
India Tonga
Jamaica Trinidad and Tobago
Kenya Tuvalu
Kiribati Uganda
Lesotho Vanuatu
Malawi Western Samoa
Malaysia Zambia
Malta Zimbabwe.
Section 39(6).

SCHEDULE 4
Amendments of Immigration Act 1971

1. In this Schedule “the 1971 Act” means the 1971 c. 77.Immigration Act 1971.