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Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002

2002 CHAPTER 41

Commentary on Sections

Part 1: Nationality

Section 12: British citizenship: registration of certain persons without other citizenship

65.Section 12 inserts a new provision into the BNA 1981, conferring an entitlement to registration as a British citizen on those British Overseas citizens, British subjects and British protected persons who have no other nationality and who have not, since 4 July 2002, given up any other nationality.

66.Subsection (2) provides that any person registered under the new provision will be a British citizen “by descent” for the purposes of the 1981 Act.

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