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As we know, Sir John Knight's predictions came true. 1948 was the nail in the coffin when the British Parliament did what was unthinkable to our English People. They amended one of our written compacts with the Monarchy without being expressly authorised. They called it 'the old law', as if it was irrelevant and useless. #contribution-f4234d01-a145-448a-aff3-672860142db1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1948-06-… 'THE LORD CHANCELLOR moved, after Clause 30 to insert the following new clause: Assimilation of status of natural-born and other British subjects under existing enactments. "For the purpose of assimilating the rights and liabilities of natural-born and other British subjects under the enactments specified in Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act, those enactments are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Part." The noble and learned Viscount said: This Amendment, which should be read with the Amendment to page 22, line 2, is designed to assimilate the status of natural-born and other British subjects—for example, naturalised subjects, under existing enactments. The older Acts, for instance, the Act of Settlement provides that: "No person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland or Ireland or the dominions thereto belonging (although he be naturalised or made a denizen, except such as are born of England parents) shall be capable to be of the Privy Council or a member of either House of Parliament.…" That was the old law. The Naturalisation Act of 1870 did away with that distinction—or rather, it did not do away with it; it did not repeal it, but it treated natural born and naturalised British subjects on the same basis. So did the Act of 1914, which repealed the Act of 1870. But there was still enough doubt and complication left as to where this matter stood to enable an argument to be raised on the matter. It was raised, in fact, shortly after the First World War, in a case which we all remember, as to whether a Privy Councillor was properly appointed by reason of the Act of Settlement, or whether the provisions of the Act of Settlement had been repealed by the 1870 and 1914 Acts. This clause is designed to make it quite clear that if we naturalise somebody, his rights are just the same as though he were born a British subject. It puts the controversy at an end, and I commend the Amendment to your Lordships. I beg to move. Amendment moved— After Clause 30, insert the said new clause—(The Lord Chancellor.) VISCOUNT SIMON If I may say so, in a sentence, the Lord Chancellor is perfectly right. It is a very important principle of our law of nationality that, if we choose to naturalise a person, that person from that time on is in exactly the same position as though he were natural-born. That is really the principle, and I am glad the Lord Chancellor has moved this Amendment.'