§ Miss Quennellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what categories of United Kingdom nationals living in independent Commonwealth countries, whom the United Kingdom might be obliged to admit if they were expelled, are now subject to United Kingdom immigration control.
§ Mr. KershawUnited Kingdom nationals living in independent Commonwealth countries fall into the following categories:
- Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies,
- British subjects without citizenship under Sections 13(1) or 16 of the British Nationality Act 1948,
- British subjects under Section 2 of the British Nationality Act 1948,
- British subjects by virtue of Section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1965,
- British Protected Persons,
- Citizens of Southern Rhodesia.
People in all these categories are now subject to United Kingdom immigration control unless exempted therefrom by Section 1(2) of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962, as amended by 351W Section 1 of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968. From 1st January 1973, exemption from control will be under Section 2 of the Immigration Act 1971.