British Subject without citizenship

Hello there,

My father was born in 1919 in Mauritius whilst it was a British Crown Dominion. Having read the text in bold below, I am getting the impression that on 1 January 1949, he did not become a CUKC and after reading the text pasted below, I think he might have become a BSWC(British Subject Without Citizenship). This might mean that he could not have lost CUKC on independence in 1968 since he did not have it in the first place. Eventually, on 1 January 1983, he would have become a British Subject.

Please have a look at the text below from which I derive these above conclusions:
Applicant claimed British citizenship on the grounds ttlat both his parents were'born British subjects. He was born in 1946 in the Dominion ,of South Africa to a father ,born in the former , Cape Colony in 1896. Both, by virtue of birth in the Crown's Dominions, were British subjects under section 1(1)(a) of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914. On
31 May 1,910 the colonies of Cape, Natal, Orange Free State arid Transvaal combined into the Dominion of the Union of South Africa. The Statute of Westminster 1931, which gave effect to certain resolutions passed by the Imperial Conference of 1926 and 1930, provided
that in any future Act "Colony" would not include a Dominion or any province or state forming part of a Dominion. On 1 February 1949 neither son nor father became CUKCs as they were not born in a place which was a colony for the purposes of the Act. They became
British subjects without citizenship. On 2 September 1949 under the South African Citizenship Act they became citizens of South Africa under section 2(1) (born in 'the Union prior to 2 September 1949 and were Union nationals immediately prior to that date). The Act defined the "Union" as including any part of South Africa now (ie on 2 September 1949)
included in the Union. Cape Cod was included from 31 May 1910. As a foreign national his' only avenue to British citizenship is now by way of naturalisation cf.


The web page link is: http://www.ilpa.org.uk/data/resources/1 ... narios.pdf

See NC 7

Please could one of the experts have a look and let me know if I have an argument here.

Thanks