{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-act-1981/schedule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-act-1981/schedule-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/61",
  "legislation_title": "British Nationality Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-act-1981",
  "path": "schedule/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Countries Whose Citizens are Commonwealth Citizens",
  "text": "Antigua and Barbuda\nAustralia\nThe Bahamas\nBangladesh\nBarbados\nBelize\nBotswana\nBrunei\nCameroon\nCanada\nRepublic of Cyprus\nDominica\nEswatini\nFiji\nGabon\nThe Gambia\nGhana\nGrenada\nGuyana\nIndia\nJamaica\nKenya\nKiribati\nLesotho\nMalawi\nMalaysia\nMaldives\nMalta\nMauritius\nMozambique\nNauru\nNew Zealand\nNigeria\nPakistan\nPapua New Guinea\nRwanda\nSaint Christopher and Nevis\nSaint Lucia\nSaint Vincent and the Grenadines\nSeychelles\nSierra Leone\nSingapore\nSolomon Islands\nSouth Africa\nSri Lanka\n...\nTanzania\nTogo\nTonga\nTrinidad and Tobago\nTuvalu\nUganda\nVanuatu\nWestern Samoa\nZambia\nZimbabwe\nNamibia",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "\"Brunei\" inserted by S.I. 1983/1699, arts. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 inserted (25.1.1999) by S.I. 1998/3161, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 inserted (15.12.2023) by The British Nationality (Eswatini, Gabon and Togo) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1219), arts. 1(1), 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 inserted (22.6.2018) by The British Nationality (The Gambia) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/620), arts. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 inserted (2.6.2021) by The British Nationality (Maldives) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/523), arts. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "By S.I. 1989/1331, art. 2, it is provided that the Act shall have effect as if in Sch. 3 under the word “Nigeria” there were inserted the word “Pakistan”"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 inserted (10.3.2010) by British Nationality (Rwanda) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/246), arts. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "\"Saint Christopher and Nevis\" inserted by S.I. 1983/882, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 inserted (26.7.1994) by S.I. 1994/1634, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 omitted (15.12.2023) by virtue of The British Nationality (Eswatini, Gabon and Togo) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1219), arts. 1(1), 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "\"Namibia\" inserted by S.I. 1990/1502, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/61/schedule/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:43.090681+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."
}