The British Nationality (General) Regulations 2003

Authority to whom application is to be made U.K.

4.—(1) Except as provided by paragraphs (2) and (3), the authority to whom an application is to be made is as follows:

(a) if the applicant is in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, to the Secretary of State at the Home Office;

(b) if the applicant is in any of the Islands, to the Lieutenant-Governor;

(c) if the applicant is in a British overseas territory, to the Governor;

F1 (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F2 (e) if the applicant is elsewhere, to the Secretary of State at the Home Office.]

(2) The authority to whom an application under section 4(5) of the Act (acquisition by registration: British overseas territories citizens, etc), on grounds of Crown Service under the government of a British overseas territory or service as a member of a body established by law in a British overseas territory, is to be made is in all cases the Governor of that territory.

(3) The authority to whom an application under section 5 of the Act [F3 (acquisition by registration: British overseas territories citizens having connection with Gibraltar)] M1 is to be made is in all cases the Governor of Gibraltar.

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 4(1)(d) omitted (12.11.2015) by virtue of The British Nationality (General) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1806), regs. 1, 4

F2 Reg. 4(1)(e) substituted (16.7.2012) by The British Nationality (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1588), regs. 1, 2(3)

F3 Words in reg. 4(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Immigration, Nationality and Asylum (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/745), regs. 1(2), 30(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Marginal Citations

M1 Section 5 is amended by section 1(2) of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8).