Zimbabwe Act 1979

Section 2(2).

SCHEDULE 1Transitional Provisions as to Applications for Registration as a Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies

1A person whose application for registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies was received but not determined before Independence Day shall be treated for the purposes of his application as if Zimbabwe were a country mentioned in section 1(3) of the 1948 Act.

2A person whose application for registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies is received on or after Independence Day shall be treated for the purposes of his application as if Zimbabwe were a country mentioned in section 1(3) of the 1948 Act if the application is made under section 5A(1) of the 1948 Act or section 6(1) thereof as modified by Schedule 1 to the [1971 c. 77.] Immigration Act 1971, and is received before the first anniversary of Independence Day or such later date as the Secretary of State may in the special circumstances of any particular case allow.

3Notwithstanding the provision in paragraph (a) of section 3(1) of the [1958 c. 10.] British Nationality Act 1958 that (subject to limited exceptions) no person shall be registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under section 12(6) of the 1948 Act (as amended by the said section 3(1)) on an application made after the end of the year 1962, a citizen of Zimbabwe (and any of his minor children) may be so registered—

(a)on an application made on or after 18th November 1965 which was received but not determined before Independence Day; or

(b)on an application received before the first anniversary of Independence Day or such later date as the Secretary of State may in the special circumstances of any particular case allow.

4In this Schedule " the 1948 Act" means the [1948 c. 56.] British Nationality Act 1948.