HC Deb 03 June 1981 vol 5 c998

Amendment made: No. 18, in page 7, line 2"7 at end insert— '(2A) Subject to subsection (2C), if, on an application for the registration of a person under subsection (2) as a British citizen, that person satisfies the Secretary of State that he was engaged in relevant service throughout any period (of whatever length), that period shall for the purposes of subsection (2) be treated as a period throughout which he was ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom. (2B) For the purposes of subsection (2A) "relevant service" means—

  1. (a) Crown service under the government of the United Kingdom; or
  2. (b) service under any international organisation of which the United Kingdom or Her Majesty's Government therein is a member; or
  3. (c) service in the employment of any company or association established in the United Kingdom.
(2C) A person shall not be registered under subsection (2) wholly or partly by reason of service within subsection (2B)(b) or (c) unless it seems to the Secretary of State fitting that he should be so registered by reason of his close connection with the United Kingdom'.—[Mr. Raison.]

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