{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-dependent-territories-citizenship-designated-service-order-1982/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1710",
  "legislation_title": "The British Dependent Territories Citizenship (Designated Service) Order 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-dependent-territories-citizenship-designated-service-order-1982",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Section 16 of the British Nationality Act 1981 (which comes into force on 1st January 1983—see S.I. 1982/933) provides, inter alia, that a person born outside the dependent territories after the commencement of the Act is a British Dependent Territories citizen if at the time of the birth his father or mother is such a citizen and is serving outside the dependent territories in service designated by the Secretary of State, recruitment for that service having taken place in a dependent territory. This Order designates various types of service for the purposes of this provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1710/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:11:03.035002+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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