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British Nationality Act 1981

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

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 [1965 c. 34.] 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.

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