§ 61. Mr. MITCHELL-THOMSONasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the naturalisation of a foreigner in British Honduras holds good beyond the limits of that Colony; if not, what is the status of such a person outside the Colony from the point of view of international law; whether any Committee has ever been held to investigate the matter; and, if so, when it reported, whether the Report was published, and what is the nature of such Report?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Mr. Harcourt)Naturalisation in a British Colony is valid only within the limits of the Colony. It is not possible to make any general statement as to the status of a person who has been naturalised in a British Colony when he is beyond its limits; that status depends in the main on the law of the country of his original nationality and on the law of the place where he finds himself. The matter has been investigated by Committees in 1901 and 1908, and their Reports have been published as Cd. 723 and on pages 237–241 of Cd. 5746–1. The matter was further considered at the Imperial Conference of 1911, and the results of that discussion will be found summarised in Resolution X. of the Conference; the Report will be found in Cd. 5745, pages 249–271, and the text of the Resolution on page 16.