Section 27: Interpretation

27. Interpretation (1) In this Chapter, “British protected person” means a person who is a British protected person for the purposes of the British Nationality Act 19484. (2) For the purposes of this Chapter, a person born aboard a registered ship or aircraft, or aboard an unregistered ship or aircraft of the Government of any country, shall be deemed to have been born in the place in which the ship or aircraft was registered or, as the case may be, in that country. 2. 1948 c 56 (UK). 3. 1965 c 34 (UK). 4. 1948 c 56 (UK). CON – 25 [Issue 1] The Constitution (3) Any reference in this Chapter to the national status of the parent of a person at the time of that person’s birth shall, in relation to a person born after the death of his parent, be construed as a reference to the national status of the parent at the time of the parent’s death, and where that death occurred before 12 March 1968 and the birth occurred after 11 March 1968, the national status that the parent would have had if he had died on 12 March 1968 shall be deemed to be his national status at the time of his death. [S. 20 amended by Act 23 of 1995.] CHAPTER IV – THE PRESIDENT AND THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MAURITIUS