{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-british-overseas-territories-regulations-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3139",
  "legislation_title": "The British Nationality (British Overseas Territories) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-british-overseas-territories-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Application under section 22(1) of the Act",
  "text": "The application shall contain information showing—\n(a) that the applicant has renounced citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies before commencement;\n(b) that at the time when he renounced it, the applicant was, or was about to become, a citizen of a country mentioned immediately before commencement in section 1(3) of the British Nationality Act 1948;\n(c) that the applicant could not have remained or become such a citizen but for renouncing it or had reasonable cause to believe that he would be deprived of his citizenship of that country unless he renounced it;\n(d) that the applicant possessed the requisite qualifying connection with a British overseas territory immediately before commencement or was married before commencement to a person who possessed the requisite qualifying connection with a British overseas territory immediately before commencement or who would if living have possessed such a connection;\n(e) that the applicant has not previously been registered under section 22(1) of the Act (right to registration replacing right to resume citizenship of UK and Colonies); and\n(f) where the applicant is aged 10 or over, that he is of good character.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 14 in force at 3.12.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1948 c. 56. Section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1948 was repealed by section 52(8) of, and Schedule 9 to, the 1981 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 22(1) of the 1981 Act has been amended by: sections 1 and 2 of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002; and sections 5 and 161 of, and Schedule 9 to, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3139/schedule/2/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:41:48.661415+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."
}