Commonwealth Citizen

Commonwealth citizen in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of Commonwealth citizen. This legal term is related to the United Kingom and/or the English Legal System.

Resources

See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Officer
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• Commonwealth citizen in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• Commonwealth citizen in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: Commonwealth Citizen

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Commonwealth Citizen : Under the British Nationality Act 1948, a status synonymous with that of *British subject. By the British Nationality Act 1981 (which replaced the 1948 Act as from 1 January 1983 and gave the expression British subject a very limited meaning), it was redefined as a wide secondary status. It now includes every person who is either a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British National (Overseas), a British Overseas citizen, a British subject (in its current sense), or a citizen of one of the independent Commonwealth countries listed in a schedule to the 1981 Act.