British subject definition

British subject means a person who has the status of a Commonwealth citizen under the British Nationality Act 198112.

British subject. (英籍人士) means a person who has the status of a British subject under the British Nationality Act 1981 (1981 c. 61 U.K.)#;

British subject means any person who owes permanent allegiance to the Crown. "Permanent" allegiance is used to distinguish the allegiance of a British subject from the allegiance of an alien who, because he is within the British dominions, owes "temporary" allegiance to the Crown. "Natural-born British subject" means a British subject who has become a British subject at the moment of his birth." "Subject to the exceptions hereinafter mentioned, any person who (whatever the nationality of his parents) is born within the British dominions is a natural-born British subject. This rule contains the leading principle of English law on the subject of British nationality.

Examples of British subject in a sentence

• If you do not hold a full British Passport or you have any doubts about your status as a resident British subject, you must check with the Embassies or Consulates of the Countries to be visited to confirm the Passport or visa requirements when you book.

• A Commonwealth citizen for these purposes can also be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by a connection to a country or territory on that list, or a British subject without citizenship under the law on 1 January 1973.

• A reference in any law of the State to a British subject or to a natural born or naturalized subject of Her Majesty or to any other like expression, shall be read as a reference to an Australian citizen and to any other person who, under the Commonwealth Act, has the status of a British subject or has the status of a British subject without citizenship.

• Every person who is a British subject without citizenship under the British Nationality Act 19482, or continues to be a British subject under section 2 of that Act or is a British subject under the British Nationality Act 19653 shall, by virtue of that status, have the status of a Commonwealth citizen.

• A visa and a passport are required of a Bahamian national or a British subject who has his residence in the Bahamas except that a visa is not required of such an alien who, prior to or at the time of embarkation for the United States on a vessel or air- craft, satisfied the examining U.S. im- migration officer at the Bahamas, that he is clearly and beyond a doubt enti- tled to admission in all other respects.

• If you do not hold a full British Passport or have any doubts about your status as a resident British subject, you must check with the Embassies or Consulates of the Countries to be visited to confirm the Passport or visa requirements when you book.

• For example, if a person was born a British subject, i.e., before July 4, 1776, and as an adult did not adhere to the independent states after July 4, 1776, he remained a British subject.

• However, her subsequent removal to England with her husband in 1782 rendered her a British subject within the meaning of the treaty of 1794 which recognized inheritance rights for British subjects with property in the United States.

• Where a marriage is intended to be solemnised or contracted in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland, as the case may be, between a British subject resident therein and a British subject resident in Uganda, a certificate for marriage may be issued by a registrar under section 10 in the like manner as if the marriage was to be solemnised or contracted in circumstances requiring the issue of such a certificate and as if both British subjects were resident in Uganda.

• Thus, by the combined operation of Section 12(1) and (2) and Section 1 of the British Nationality Act, John Modise, his son, was both a British subject and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies on the day preceding 30th September 1966.

More Definitions of British subject

British subject means any person who is a British Subject according to the law for the time being of the United Kingdom, any person who has Seen naturalised under any enactment of any of His Majesty's dominions, and

British subject means a person who has the status of a British subject under this Act;

British subject means any person who owes permanent allegiance to the Crown.

British subject means a person who is, or is deemed to be, a British subject under the provisions of this Act ;