BRITISH NATIONALITY

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1926, Page 9

BRITISH NATIONALITY

DECISIONS OF CONFERENCE

MARRIED WOMEN’S STATUS

ALIENS ACT TO BE AMENDED

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 23, ’7.40 p.m.

London, Nov. 22

The Committee on Nationality, whose recommendations were adopted by the conference, considered in all its bearings the question of the nationality of married women, to whieh women’s organisations throughout the Empire had drawn attention.

Despite the difficulties of dual nationality arising therefrom, some delegates favoured legal amendments giving British women the opportunity of retaining their nationality no matter whom they married; but in view of the importance of uniformity throughout the 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 an amendment of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act of 1914, in order to facilitate the acquisition of British nationality by children of the third generation born abroad of British parents during the war, also extending the time for registration of Britishers’ children of the second generation born abroad. Further, it recommended amendments to provide that British subjects by naturalisation shall be obliged to register at the British Consulate annually while resident abroad, also empowering the revocation of naturalisation certificates in cases (I) of a widow of a British subject by naturalisation; (2) of any person who has acquired British nationality through residence with his parents in the United Kingdom; (3) of any person who, during two years has not complied with the obligation to register. \