Bahamas Independence Act 1973
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1973 c. 27 |
| Year | 1973 |
(1) On and after 10th July 1973 (in this Act referred to as “the appointed day”) Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom shall have no responsibility for the government of the Bahamas.(2) No Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on or after the appointed day shall extend, or be deemed to extend, to the Bahamas as part of their law; and on and after that day the provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the legislative powers of the Bahamas.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of a certificate of naturalisation granted or registration effected by the Governor or Government of the Bahamas; andis also a citizen or national of another country,immediately before the appointed day is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of any such certificate or registration as is mentioned in subsection (3) (a) of this section; andafter that day becomes a citizen of the Bahamas under any such provisions as are mentioned in subsection (5) of this section,(5) The provisions mentioned in subsection (4) (b) of this section are any provisions of an Order in Council made after the passing of this Act under the Bahamas Islands (Constitution) Act 1963 whereby a person becomes, or is entitled to become, a citizen of the Bahamas after the appointed day by reason of his being immediately before that day a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of any such certificate or registration as is mentioned in subsection (3) (a) of this section or by reason of his possessing immediately before that day Bahamian status as defined in section 128 of the Constitution set out in the Schedule to the Bahamas Islands (Constitution) Order 1969.(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (7) The references in this section to a person who is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of any such certificate as is mentioned in subsection (3) (a) of this section shall include references to a person who has become a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of section 32(6) of the British Nationality Act 1948 (persons given local naturalisation in a colony or protectorate before the commencement of that Act) in its application to the Bahamas.was born in the United Kingdom or in a colony is or was a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies; orwas registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; orbecame a British subject by reason of the annexation of any territory included in a colony.he was born in a protectorate or protected state; orhis father or his father’s father was so born and is or at any time was a British subject.shall not cease to be such a citizen under the said section 2 unless her husband either does so at the same time or has already done so; andif she would, apart from paragraph (a) of this subsection, have ceased to be such a citizen under that section at any time and her husband subsequently ceases to be such a citizen under that section, she shall cease to be such a citizen when her husband does so.(4) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, the reference in subsection (1) (b) of this section to a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies shall include a reference to a person who would, if living immediately before the commencement of the British Nationality Act 1948, have become a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of section 32(6) of that Act.references to a colony shall be construed as not including references to any territory which, on the appointed day, is not a colony for the purposes of the references to a protectorate or protected state shall be construed as not including references to any territory which, on the appointed day, is not a protectorate or a protected state (as the case may be) for the purposes of that Act as it has effect on that day;(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) On and after the appointed day the provisions specified in Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified respectively in that Schedule.(4) Subsection (3) of this section, and Schedule 2 to this Act, shall not extend to the Bahamas as part of their law.(1) In this Act, and in any amendment made by this Act in any other enactment, “the Bahamas” means the territories which immediately before the appointed day constitute the Colony of the Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands and which on and after that day are to be called the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.(2) Part III of the (3) References in this Act to any enactment are references to that enactment as amended or extended by or under another enactment.(1) This Act may be cited as the Bahamas Independence Act 1973.(2) The (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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