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The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 made Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKCs) whose passports were not directly issued by the United Kingdom Government (i.e. passports issued by the Governor of a colony or by the Commander of a British protectorate) subject to immigration control. Those with passports issued at a British High ...
British protectorates were protectorates under the jurisdiction of the British government. Many territories which became British protectorates already had local rulers with whom the Crown negotiated through treaty, acknowledging their status whilst simultaneously offering protection. British protectorates were therefore governed by indirect ...
Before the Act was passed, citizens of Commonwealth countries had extensive rights to migrate to the UK.For instance, in the sparsely populated frontier area of Sha Tin in Hong Kong, 85–90 percent of the able-bodied males left for the United Kingdom between 1955 and 1962 to work in British factories, foundries, railways, buses, hotels, and restaurants.
The Evidence (Colonial Statutes) Act 1907 applied to British Cyprus, even though Cyprus was a British protectorate, not a British possession. The text of the act made provision for the act's extension by an Order in Council to "Cyprus and any British protectorate, and where so extended this Act shall apply as if Cyprus or the protectorate were ...
This was particularly used by colonial empires like the British Empire to control their possessions in Africa and Asia, which was done through pre-existing indigenous power structures. Indirect rule was used by various colonial rulers such as: the French in Algeria and Tunisia , the Dutch in the East Indies , the Portuguese in Angola and ...
Territory of the British South Africa Company (1911–1924) Protectorate of the United Kingdom (1924–1953, 1963–1964) Division of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1953–1963) Capital: Livingstone (until 1935) Lusaka (from 1935) Common languages: English (official) Bemba, Nyanja, Tonga and Lozi widely spoken: Government ...
This was an unclear status which fell short of a formal protectorate, but required Britain to defend them from external aggression in exchange for exclusive British rights in the states. [ 5 ] Two sheikhdoms at various times looked as if they might be granted trucial status, affirming their independence from neighbouring Sharjah, Al Hamriyah ...
The term "British subject" has several different meanings depending on the time period.Before 1949, it referred to almost all subjects of the British Empire (including the United Kingdom, Dominions, and colonies, but excluding protectorates and protected states).