Section 30: Continuance as British subjects of existing British subjects of certain descriptions.

British Nationality Act 1981 · 1981 c. 61View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IV: British Subjects

A person who immediately before commencement was—

a British subject without citizenship by virtue of section 13 or 16 of the 1948 Act; or
a British subject by virtue of section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1965 (registration of alien women who have been married to British subjects of certain descriptions),

shall as from commencement be a British subject by virtue of this section.

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