3. Any application for registration as a British overseas territories citizen or for a certificate of naturalisation as a British overseas territories citizen shall—
(a)be made to the appropriate authority specified in regulation 4;
(b)satisfy the requirements of Part 1 of Schedule 1 and, if made on behalf of a person not of full age or capacity, Part 2 of that Schedule; and
(c)satisfy any further requirements specified in relation to that application in Schedule 2.
4. The authority to whom an application is to be made is—
(a)if the applicant is in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, the Secretary of State for the Home Department;
(b)if the applicant is in any of the Islands, the Lieutenant-Governor;
(c)if the applicant is in a British overseas territory, the Governor;
(d)if the applicant is in a country mentioned in Schedule 3 to the Act, the High Commissioner or, if there is no High Commissioner, the Secretary of State for the Home Department;
(e)if the applicant is elsewhere, any consular officer, any established officer in the Diplomatic Service of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom or any person authorised by the Secretary of State for that purpose.
5. The following persons may make an application on behalf of someone who is not of full age or capacity—
(a)the individual’s father or mother;
(b)any person who has assumed responsibility for the individual’s welfare.
6.—(1) This regulation applies where, by virtue of section 42 of the Act (registration and naturalisation: citizenship ceremony, oath and pledge)(1), an applicant for registration or for a certificate of naturalisation is required to make a citizenship oath or pledge.
(2) The oath or pledge shall be administered in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 3.
(3) Where, following an application by an applicant who is required to make a citizenship oath or pledge, the Secretary of State decides that the registration should be effected or the certificate should be granted—
(a)he shall cause notice in writing of the decision to be given to the applicant; and
(b)the oath or pledge shall be made within three months of the giving of the notice or such longer time as the Secretary of State may allow.
(4) Any notice required by paragraph (3)(a) shall be given—
(a)where the applicant’s whereabouts are known, by causing the notice to be delivered to him personally or by sending it to him by post;
(b)where the applicant’s whereabouts are not known, by sending it by post in a letter addressed to him at his last known address.
7. A certificate of naturalisation shall include the following information relating to the person to whom the certificate is being granted—
(a)full name;
(b)date of birth; and
(c)place and country of birth.
Section 42 of the 1981 Act was substituted by section 3 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.