Documents required from British citizens or British subjects who do not currently hold a valid United Kingdom passport who were born or adopted in the United Kingdom
14. In the case of an applicant who claims to be a British citizen, who does not hold a valid United Kingdom passport describing the applicant as a British citizen and who was born or adopted in the United Kingdom before 1st January 1983, the applicant’s birth certificate or adoption certificate in a form which contains details of the parents, or, as the case may be, adoptive parents of the applicant, in so far as they are included on the relevant register.
15.—(1) In the case of an applicant who claims to be a British citizen, who does not currently hold a valid United Kingdom passport describing the applicant as a British citizen and who was born or adopted in the United Kingdom on or after 1st January 1983 –
(a)the document specified in sub-paragraph (2), and
(b)either –
(i)one of the documents specified in sub-paragraph (3), or
(ii)one of the documents specified in sub-paragraph (4), and where the document provided under paragraph (a) is a birth certificate, the applicant’s parents’ marriage certificate.
(2) The document specified for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a) is the applicant’s birth certificate or adoption certificate in a form which contains details of the parents, or, as the case may be, adoptive parents of the applicant, in so far as they are included on the relevant register.
(3) The documents specified for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b)(i) are -
(a)the applicant’s mother’s United Kingdom birth certificate;
(b)the applicant’s mother’s certificate of registration or naturalisation;
(c)the applicant’s mother’s passport valid at the time of the applicant’s birth.
(4) The documents specified for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b)(ii) are –
(a)the applicant’s father’s United Kingdom birth certificate;
(b)the applicant’s father’s certificate of registration or naturalisation;
(c)the applicant’s father’s passport valid at the time of the applicant’s birth.