Solomon Islands Act 1978

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1978 c. 15
(1) On and after 7th July 1978 (“Independence Day”) the territories which immediately before that day are comprised in the Solomon Islands protectorate shall together form part of Her Majesty’s dominions under the name of Solomon Islands; and on and after that day Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom shall have no responsibility for the government of those territories.(2) No Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on or after Independence Day shall extend or be deemed to extend to Solomon Islands as part of its law.(3) Subsection (1) above shall not affect the operation in Solomon Islands of any enactment or any other instrument having the effect of law passed or made before Independence Day, or be taken to extend any such enactment or instrument to Solomon Islands as part of its law.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) A person who, immediately before Independence Day, is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies and has (within section 3 below) a connection with the Solomon Islands protectorate shall cease to be such a citizen on becoming (on that day or later) a citizen of Solomon Islands.who is at birth a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent only; andwhose father was immediately before Independence Day a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies and then had (within section 3) a connection with the protectorate,shall on that day cease to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; andunless he then has another nationality, shall on that day become a British protected person.was born in Solomon Islands; orbecame a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of a certificate of naturalisation granted, or registration effected, at a time when he was resident in Solomon Islands.(2) Apart from subsection (1) , a woman has a connection with the protectorate if she acquired the status of citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (automatically or by registration) on the grounds of marriage to a man who has that connection by virtue of subsection (1) , or would have done so had he lived.was born in the United Kingdom or in a relevant territory; oris or was a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of a certificate of naturalisation granted in the United Kingdom or a relevant territory; orwas, in the United Kingdom or a relevant territory, registered as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, or was so registered by a High Commissioner exercising functions under section 8(2) or 12(7) of the 1948 Act; orbecame a British subject by reason of the annexation of any territory included in a relevant territory.(4) Nor does a person have that connection if his father or his father’s father would, if living immediately before the commencement of the 1948 Act, have become a person naturalised in the United Kingdom and Colonies under section 32(6) of that Act (previous local naturalisation in a colony or protectorate) by virtue of having enjoyed the privileges of naturalisation in a relevant territory.(5) Subsection (3) (c) above does not apply to a woman by virtue of her registration as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies if that registration was effected under section 6(2) of the 1948 Act (registration as citizens of United Kingdom and Colonies of women who have been married to such citizens) .(6) In this section “relevant territory” means any territory which on Independence Day is a colony or an associated state, other than any territory which on that day is not a colony for the purposes of the 1948 Act as then in force (and accordingly does not include Solomon Islands) .shall cease to be a British protected person on that day if he then becomes a citizen of Solomon Islands or is then a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; butotherwise, shall continue on and after that day to be a British protected person, subject to subsection (3) below.he does not at birth acquire another nationality or become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; andhis father was born in Solomon Islands and is, at the date of the birth, a British protected person by virtue of subsection (1) .on becoming at any time a citizen of Solomon Islands or of the United Kingdom and Colonies;on 7th July 1980, if he then has another nationality; orafter that day, on acquiring another nationality.(4) A person who becomes a British protected person on 7th July 1980 by virtue of section 2(4) of this Act shall cease to be a British protected person if, on or after that day, he becomes a citizen of Solomon Islands or of the United Kingdom and Colonies, or acquires another nationality.(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) A woman who is a British protected person, and is the wife of such a person, shall not herself cease to be a British protected person under section 4 unless her husband does so.(3) . . . (1) References in this Act to a person having or acquiring another nationality are to his being or (as the case may be) becoming a citizen of any country specified in F4Schedule 3 to the British Nationality Act 1981 (except Solomon Islands) , or of a foreign country or of the Republic of Ireland.(2) The following provisions of the British Nationality Act 1981, namely sections 45 (evidence) , 46 (offences and proceedings) , 48 (posthumous children) and 50 (interpretation) shall have effect for the purposes of sections 2 to 6 of this Act as if those sections of this Act were included in that Act.(3) A person born out of wedlock and legitimated (within the meaning of F6section 47(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981) by the subsequent marriage of his parents shall be treated as if he had been born legitimate for any purpose of determining his status, or any change in his status, under this Act.(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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