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Citizenship rules in Gibraltar, like different British Overseas Territories, differ from these within the UK
People making use of for British Overseas Territory citizenship nonetheless face "unacceptable" discrimination, a committee of MPs and friends has stated.
Citizenship rights nonetheless rely upon whether or not a particular person's mother and father have been married or whether or not it was their mom or father who had citizenship.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights has urged the federal government to right the discrimination in new laws.
The authorities says session with the BOTs is now "on our agenda".
While traditionally, British nationality might solely be inherited by these whose mother and father have been married and provided that their fathers have been British, some measures have been taken to treatment this within the British Nationality Act 1981.
However, these modifications solely associated to British citizenship, not different kinds of nationality coated by the 1981 Act, together with British Overseas Territory citizenship.
This signifies that in territories reminiscent of Anguilla, Bermuda, the Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar, the kids of single mother and father, or those that declare their proper to citizenship by means of their mom, proceed to face discrimination.
The UK authorities is consulting on a "remedial order" to the 1981 Act, after different parts of it have been discovered to be incompatible with the Human Rights Act.
The joint committee welcomed the federal government's strategy to repair the issues within the Act however raised issues about "related areas of discrimination in British nationality law"together with the standing of individuals whose mother and father weren't marriedor the place the daddy was not a BOT citizen.
The joint committee stated that the UK Parliament might legislate for BOT citizenship rules and it was "difficult to see" why that they had not been amended within the British Nationality Act, alongside the rules for different British residents.
"Such discrimination should not be allowed to persist," the report stated.
"We take into account it unacceptable that discrimination in buying British nationality persists (together with for British Overseas Territories citizenship) relying on whether or not a particular person's father or mom was a British Overseas Territories citizen, or whether or not or not their mother and father have been married.
"This type of discrimination in the British Nationality Act should be remedied for all types of British nationality and we recommend that the home secretary take urgent steps to bring forward legislation to do so."
One campaigner informed the committee: "The matter is fairly simple to best individuals, and in at present's fashionable forward-thinking society, this matter ought to have been rectified a very long time in the past.
"Children now adults should never be made to feel they are 'less-than' under the law, especially when it comes to claiming the parents' heritage and citizenship by descent."
Immigration Minister Caroline Noakes informed the committee: "Any amendments to individuals entitled to be registered as British Overseas Territory residents would require session with the Overseas Territories and that is now on our agenda.
"I am grateful to the committee for bringing this to my attention. I will ask my officials to consider this for the next draft of the Remedial Order in consultation with representatives in the BOTCs."