Nationality lawU.K.

2 Effect of independence on British nationality.U.K.

3“Connection with Solomon Islands”.U.K.

(1)A person has a connection with the Solomon Islands protectorate if he or his father—

(a)was born in Solomon Islands; or

(b)became a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of a certificate of naturalisation granted, or registration effected, at a time when he was resident in Solomon Islands.

(2)Apart from subsection (1), a woman has a connection with the protectorate if she acquired the status of citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (automatically or by registration) on the grounds of marriage to a man who has that connection by virtue of subsection (1), or would have done so had he lived.

(3)But a person does not have a connection with the protectorate if he, his father or his father’s father—

(a)was born in the United Kingdom or in a relevant territory; or

(b)is or was a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of a certificate of naturalisation granted in the United Kingdom or a relevant territory; or

(c)was, in the United Kingdom or a relevant territory, registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, or was so registered by a High Commissioner exercising functions under section 8(2) or 12(7) of the 1948 Act; or

(d)became a British subject by reason of the annexation of any territory included in a relevant territory.

(4)Nor does a person have that connection if his father or his father’s father would, if living immediately before the commencement of the 1948 Act, have become a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies under section 32(6) of that Act (previous local naturalisation in a colony or protectorate) by virtue of having enjoyed the privileges of naturalisation in a relevant territory.

(5)Subsection (3)(c) above does not apply to a woman by virtue of her registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies if that registration was effected under section 6(2) of the 1948 Act (registration as citizens of United Kingdom and Colonies of women who have been married to such citizens).

(6)In this section “relevant territory” means any territory which on Independence Day is a colony or an associated state, other than any territory which on that day is not a colony for the purposes of the 1948 Act as then in force (and accordingly does not include Solomon Islands).

4 British protected persons.U.K.

(1)A person who immediately before Independence Day is a British protected person by virtue of his connection with the Solomon Islands protectorate—

(a)shall cease to be a British protected person on that day if he then becomes a citizen of Solomon Islands or is then a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; but

(b)otherwise, shall continue on and after that day to be a British protected person, subject to subsection (3) below.

(2)A person born on or after Independence Day and before 7th July 1980 shall become a British protected person if—

(a)he does not at birth acquire another nationality or become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; and

(b)his father was born in Solomon Islands and is, at the date of the birth, a British protected person by virtue of subsection (1).

(3)A person who continues to be a British protected person under subsection (1), or becomes one under subsection (2), shall cease to be a British protected person—

(a)on becoming at any time a citizen of Solomon Islands or of the United Kingdom and Colonies;

(b)on 7th July 1980, if he then has another nationality; or

(c)after that day, on acquiring another nationality.

(4)A person who becomes a British protected person on 7th July 1980 by virtue of section 2(4) of this Act shall cease to be a British protected person if, on or after that day, he becomes a citizen of Solomon Islands or of the United Kingdom and Colonies, or acquires another nationality.

5 Married women.U.K.

6 Construction of nationality provisions.U.K.