8. In section 8 (exceptions for seamen, etc.)(1)—
(a)in subsection (1) for the words “United Kingdom”, wherever occurring, substitute “Bailiwick of Guernsey”;
(b)for subsection (2) substitute—
“(2) The Board may, with the concurrence of the Lieutenant-Governor, direct that any particular person or class of persons shall be exempt, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as the Board may impose, from all or any of the provisions of this Act relating to those who are not British citizens.”;
(c)in subsection (3) after the words “otherwise entitled” insert “within the United Kingdom”;
(d)in subsections (3A), (4)(b) and (5A), and wherever occurring in subsection (5), for the words “United Kingdom” substitute “Bailiwick of Guernsey”;
(e)in subsections (5) and (5A) for the word “order”, wherever occurring, substitute “direction”; and
(f)in subsection (6) for the words “United Kingdom”, in the first place in which they occur, substitute “Bailiwick of Guernsey”.
Section 8 was amended by the British Nationality Act 1981, section 39(4) and (6) and Schedule 4 paragraphs 2 and 5, and by the Immigration Act 1988, section 4.