British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983

5 Citation, provision for retrospective effect, and extent

(1) This Act may be cited as the British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983 ; and this Act and the [1981 c. 61.] British Nationality Act 1981 may be cited together as the British Nationality Acts 1981 and 1983.

(2) This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on 1st January 1983 (that is to say at commencement as defined in section 4(1)); and accordingly, subject to subsection (3), where the requirements of any provision of section 1 for the acquisition of British citizenship were satisfied in relation to any person at commencement or at any time between commencement and the passing of this Act, that person shall be treated as having acquired that citizenship at that time.

(3) Nothing in section I shall confer British citizenship—

(a) on a person in respect of whom a declaration of renunciation of British Dependent Territories citizenship was registered under the 1981 Act at any time before the passing of this Act; or

(b) on a person who at any time before the passing of this Act was deprived under the 1981 Act of his British Dependent Territories citizenship.

(4) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.

(5) This Act extends to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and to all dependent territories; and it is hereby declared for the purposes of section 3(3) of the [1967 c. 4.] West Indies Act 1967 that this Act extends to all associated states.