{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-and-status-of-aliens-act-1943/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-and-status-of-aliens-act-1943/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/6-7/14",
  "legislation_title": "British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1943",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-and-status-of-aliens-act-1943",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "British nationality of posthumous children",
  "text": "Any person born after the death of his father, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, shall, if his father died 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 in any case in which he would have been a natural-born British subject if his father had survived and remained a British subject until after the birth.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/6-7/14/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:27:30.957335+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."
}