On 1 January 1983, upon the coming into force of the British Nationality Act 1981, every citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies became either a British citizen, British Dependent Territories citizen or British Overseas citizen.
Use of the term British subject was discontinued for all persons who fell into these categories, or who had a national citizenship of any other Commonwealth country. The category of British subjects now includes only those people formerly known as British subjects without citizenship and people born in the Republic of Ireland before 1949. In statutes passed before 1 January 1983, however, references to British subjects are interpreted as if they referred to Commonwealth citizens.
British citizens are not British subjects under the 1981 Act. The only circumstance where a person may be both a British subject and British citizen simultaneously is a case where a British subject connected with Ireland (s. 31 of the 1981 Act) acquires British citizenship by naturalisation or registration. In this case only, British subject status is not lost upon acquiring British citizenship. The status of British subject cannot now be transmitted by descent, and will become extinct with the death of all existing British subjects.
British subjects, other than by those who obtained their status by virtue of a connection to the Republic of Ireland prior to April 1949, automatically lose their British subject status on acquiring any other nationality, including British citizenship, under section 35 of the British Nationality Act 1981.
The number of British Subject passports issued annually declined steadily from 5,575 in 2007 to 3,232 in 2012.
Genzo2018-11-09 13:20:36
你咪繼續FF 中國會有幾強大囉
Genzo2018-11-09 13:22:14
quote 完又選擇性失明呀?
你所吹嘅700萬 subject 就真係無引條文喇, 白痴仔
Genzo2018-11-09 13:24:13
英國會唔會出兵香港, 無人會知. 你根本只係不斷玩訴諸斷言謬誤
Genzo2018-11-09 13:24:59
訴諸斷言(appeal to assertion)或(重複)斷言證明(proof by (repeated) assertion),是不斷聲稱自己的觀點無誤而不提供任何理據的作為。