British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61)

Part IV British Subjects

33 Registration of certain alien women entitled to registration as British subjects immediately before commencement. U.K.

[F1 A woman who immediately before commencement was the wife of a British subject shall be entitled, on an application for her registration as a British subject made within five years after commencement, to be registered as a British subject if—

(a) immediately before commencement she would (if she had applied for it) have been entitled under section 1 of the M1 British Nationality Act 1965 to be registered as a British subject by virtue of her marriage to the man who was then her husband; and

(b) on the date of the application under this section that man is a British subject; and

(c) she remained married to him throughout the period from commencement to that date.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 33 ceased to have effect (7.11.2002) and repealed (prosp.) by virtue of Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41), ss. 15, 161, 162, Sch. 2 para. 1(i), Sch. 9 (with s. 159, Sch. 2 para. 2)

Marginal Citations

M1 1965 c. 34.