1 Acquisition of British citizenship at commencement of 1981 Act or by birth or adoption.
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A person shall at commencement become a British citizen if––
(a)
that person becomes a British Dependent Territories citizen at commencement under section 23 of the 1981 Act (persons becoming British Dependent Territories citizens at commencement); and
(b)
immediately before commencement either—
(i)
that person was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies who had that citizenship by his birth, naturalisation or registration in the Falkland Islands; or
(ii)
one of that person’s parents, or a parent of one of that person’s parents, was, or but for his death would have been, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies who so had that citizenship; or
(iii)
that person, being a woman, was, or had at any time been, the wife of a man who by virtue of subparagraph (i) or (ii) becomes a British citizen at commencement or would have done so but for his death.
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