PROBLEMS OF NATIONALITY

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12612, 24 November 1926, Page 9

PROBLEMS OF NATIONALITY

EMPIRE CONFERENCE REPORTS AMENDMENT OF LAW ADVISED. Australian and N. Cable Association. (Received November 23, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, November 22. The committee on Nationality, whose recommendations were adopted by the imperial Coulerence, considered in all its bearings the question of the nationality of married women, to which women’s organisations throughout the Empire had drawn attention. Despite the difficulties of dual nationality arising, some delegates favoured legal amendments giving British women the opportunity of retaining their nationality, no matter whom they married, hut in view of the importance of uniformity throughout he Empire the committee made no recommendation, pending the possibility of an international agreement on the two questions of dual nationality and no nationality by the League of Nations’ expert committee on the codification of international law. The committee recommended the amendment of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, in order to facilitate the acquisition of British nationality fcy children of the third generation born abroad of British parents during the war. and also extending the time for the registration of Britishers’ children of the sec■ond generation born abroad. Further, it recommended amendments to provide that British subjects bv naturalisation shall be obliged to register at the British Consulate annually while they are resident abroad, and also empowering the revocation of naturalisation certificates in the cases: (1) Of a widow of a British subject by naturalisation. (2) Of a person who acquired the British nationality through residence with his parents in the United Kingdom.

(3) Of a person who during two years has not complied with the obligation to register.