The constitution and laws of Barbados
Commonwealth citizens
8. 1. Every person who under this Constitution or any Act of Parliament
is a citizen of Barbados or under any enactment for the time being in force in
any country to which this section applies is a citizen of that country shall,
by virtue of that citizenship, have the status of a Commonwealth citizen.
2. Every person who is a British subject without citizenship under the British
nationality act 1948, continues to be a British subject under section 2 of that
Act or is a British subject under the British Nationality Act 1965(a) shall, by
virtue of that status, have the status of a Commonwealth citizen.
3. Save as may be otherwise provided by Parliament, the countries to which this
section applies are the United Kingdom and colonies, Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Ghana, Malaysia, Nigeria, Cyprus, Sierra
Leone, Tanzania, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Malta,
Zambia, the Gambia, Singapore, Guyana, Botswana, Lesotho and southern
Rhodesia.
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