Children Born "Abroad"

THE attention of parents of children of the second and subsequent genera tions born abroad, and persons whose British nationality could not hitherto be admitted owing to inability to fulfil the conditions attached to the registration of a birth at a British con sulate, are drawn to the “British Nation ality .and Status of Aliens Act, 1943.”

This amends certain provisions in the Act of 1914.

Under the new Act, any legitimate person born abroad, whose father was at the time of birth a British subject, may apply for registration of his birth, and with the permission of the Secretary of

State, this may be effected within any period after this person’s birth. (For merly, the birth had to be registered within a year, or in special circum stances two years, at a British con sulate.) In certain circumstances, where the interests of a surviving wife or child are involved, the registration may now be effected in respect to a person already deceased.

The new Act includes several clauses of interest to British subjects living abroad. Reference should be made to local consulates, and to obviate delay and reference to the Secretary of State, London, it is still urged that parents re gister the births of their children within one year* of their occurrence.