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<dc:title>The British Nationality (General) Regulations 2003</dc:title>
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<dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher>
<dc:subject scheme="SIheading">BRITISH NATIONALITY</dc:subject>
<dc:modified>2024-05-16</dc:modified>
<dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor>
<dct:valid>2023-05-10</dct:valid>
<dc:description>These Regulations replace the British Nationality (General) Regulations 1982. These Regulations make the following changes of substance:references to applications for registration under sections of the British Nationality Act 1981 which were repealed by section 15 of and Schedule 2 to the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 are not re-enacted;provision is made as to how applications for registration as British citizens under sections 4B and 4C of the British Nationality Act 1981 (as inserted by sections 12 and 13 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002) are to be made. The new registration entitlements under sections 4B and 4C come into force on the 30th April 2003;provision is made as to how applications for registration as a British citizen under section 4A of the British Nationality Act 1981 (as inserted by section 4 of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002) are to be made. Section 4 of the British Overseas Territories Act came into force on the 21st May 2002;the provisions relating to the giving of notice of proposed deprivation of citizenship are amended to reflect the changes to be introduced by section 4 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 which substitutes a new section 40 and 40A into the British Nationality Act 1981 and comes into force on the 1st April 2003;the requirements for applications for registration as a British citizen under section 10 of the British Nationality Act 1981 are amended to reflect the amendment to section 10 effected by section 5 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.</dc:description>
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