NATIONALITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 247, 19 October 1933, Page 10

NATIONALITY.

MARRIED WOMEN. LEGISLATION PENDING. (Dy Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Empire uniformity in the law relating to nationality is accepted by the Government as a desirable principle, and legislation dealing with the subject is likely to be promoted. Replying in the House yesterday to Mrs. E. R. McComl>s (Labour, Lyttelton), who had asked for legislation enabling a New Zealand woman who marries an alien to retain her own nationality, the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Internal Affairs, stated that the Government for some time had been seriously considering the question of the nationality of married women. Views on the subject had been exchanged with the Imperial Government, which had also been in consultation with the other Dominions. The New Zealand Government had already given provisional instructions for the preparation of legislation, but the nature of it was dependent upon the precise form in which the proposals, now before the British Parliament became law. The New Zealand Parliament could not of itself confer British nationality on women which would have effect beyond Dominion territory, but by the adoption of the Imperial law, the full status of a British subject, recognised throughout the world, was conferred.