Section 2 British nationality of persons born in foreign countries where His Majesty exercises jurisdiction

Any person born, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, in a place where by treaty, capitulation, grant, usage, sufferance, or other lawful means, His Majesty was at the time of that person's birth exercising jurisdiction over British subjects, shall, if at the time of his birth his father was a British subject, be deemed to be and, in the case of a person born before the commencement of this Act, always to have been, a natural-born British subject.

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section one of the principal Act, any such person as aforesaid shall be deemed to have been born within His Majesty's allegiance.