HL Deb 20 January 1976 vol 367 cc458-60WA
Lord DUNLEATH

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Why, now that the Sex Discrimination Act has been passed, a female British citizen who marries an alien has to return to the United Kingdom to give birth to a baby if British citizenship is to be claimed for it, while the same stricture does not apply if a male British citizen marries an alien.

The MINISTER of STATE, HOME OFFICE (Lord Harris of Greenwich)

The Sex Discrimination Act made no amendment to the British Nationality Acts which regulate the transmission of citizenship to a child born overseas. The question whether citizenship should descend in the female line is among those being considered in the review of nationality law now in progress.

House adjourned at three minutes before eight o'clock