The Immigration and Nationality (Requirements for Naturalisation and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 618

British Nationality

Immigration

Nationality

The Immigration and Nationality (Requirements for Naturalisation and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Made

23rd May 2018

Laid before Parliament

24th May 2018

Coming into force

30th May 2018

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 41(1)(ba) and (bb) and (3) of the British Nationality Act 1981(1) and sections 68(1) and (10)(b), 69(2) and 74(8)(a) and (b) of the Immigration Act 2014(2) and, in the case of provision made under the Act of 2014, with the consent of the Treasury and further to provision in the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Order 2016(3).

(1)

1981 c. 61. Section 41(1) was amended by section 1 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41). Other amendments have been made to section 41 but none are relevant for the purposes of these Regulations.

(2)

2014 c. 22. Treasury consent has been obtained in pursuance of section 69(1) of the Immigration Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”) to the provisions of these Regulations which are made under that Act. Sections 68 to 70 of the 2014 Act were extended, subject to specified modifications, to the Isle of Man by articles 5 and 7 of the Immigration (Isle of Man) (Amendment) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1765) which inserted new articles 22 and 23 and Schedule 9A into the Immigration (Isle of Man) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/680); other amendments have been made to the Order of 2008 but none are relevant for the purposes of these Regulations. Sections 68 to 70 of the 2014 Act were also extended to the Bailiwick of Guernsey by article 4 of the Immigration (Guernsey) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/996), subject to the modifications specified in the Schedule to that Order. Sections 68 to 70 of the 2014 Act were also extended to the Bailiwick of Jersey by article 3 of the Immigration (Jersey) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/994), subject to the modifications specified in the Schedule to that Order.