British Nationality Act 1981

[F1 17B Registration: unmarried fathers; the general conditions U.K.

For the purposes of sections 17C to 17F, a person (“P”) meets the general conditions if—

(a) at the time of P’s birth, P’s mother—

(i) was not married, or

(ii) was married to a person other than P’s natural father;

(b) no person is treated as the father of P under—

(i) section 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, or

(ii) section 35 or 36 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008;

(c) no person is treated as a parent of P under section 42 or 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008; and

(d) P has never been a British overseas territories citizen or a British Dependent Territories citizen.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 17B-17G inserted (28.6.2022) by Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (c. 36), ss. 2(2), 87(1); S.I. 2022/590, regs. 1(2), 2, Sch. 1 para. 2