{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-act-1981/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-act-1981/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/61",
  "legislation_title": "British Nationality Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-act-1981",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Registration of minors.",
  "text": "(1) ... If while a person is a minor an application is made for his registration as a British Overseas citizen, the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, cause him to be registered as such a citizen.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 27 omitted (2.12.2025) by virtue of Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (c. 31), ss. 42(2)(m), 65(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 27(2) ceases to have effect (7.11.2002) and repealed (prosp.) by virtue of Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41), ss. 15, 161, 162, Sch. 2 para. 1(g), Sch. 9 (with s. 159, Sch. 2 para. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 27(1) restricted (4.12.2006) by Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c. 13), ss. 58, 62; S.I. 2006/2838, art. 4(1) (subject to art. 4(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 27(1) restricted (20.7.2023) by Illegal Migration Act 2023 (c. 37), ss. 34, 68(3)(a) (with s. 55(9))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/61/section/27",
    "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."
}