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Lords Amendment: In page 5, line 39, leave out from beginning to "being" and insert:
a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies who became such—
(i) by virtue of
§ Mr. RentonI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
I suggest, Mr. Speaker, that it would be convenient to take at the same time the next two Amendments. Clause 6 (2) defines the categories of Commonwealth citizens who are exempted from deportation and subsection (2, b) refers to those who became or will become citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies by being registered in the United Kingdom under Section 7 of the British Nationality Act, 1948.
There is a better way of doing this than that in the Bill which left this House, and that is what these three Amendments attempt to achieve. The effect would be that not only those registered under Section 7 of the 1948 Act would be exempted but also those registered under Section 6 and Section 12 of that Act, and also those whose citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies was registered by our High Commissioners in an independent Commonwealth country.
For most complicated reasons, with which I will not trouble the House unless pressed, these Amendments make little or no difference to the substance of the Bill, but to the extent that they do so, they exempt a very few more people from the possibility of deportation than did the original drafting.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendment agreed to.