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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-british-overseas-territories-regulations-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-british-overseas-territories-regulations-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-17.json",
  "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/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Application under section 13(1) of the Act as applied by section 24 of that Act",
  "text": "The application shall contain information showing—\n(a) that the applicant has renounced British overseas territories citizenship;\n(b) that, at the time when he renounced it, the applicant had or was about to acquire some other citizenship or nationality;\n(c) that the renunciation of British overseas territories citizenship was necessary to enable him to retain or acquire that other citizenship or nationality;\n(d) that the applicant had not previously been registered under section 13(1) of the Act (resumption of citizenship) as applied by section 24 of that Act (renunciation and resumption of British overseas territories citizenship);\n(e) where the applicant is aged 10 or over, that he is of good character; and\n(f) that the applicant is of full capacity.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 17 in force at 3.12.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 24 of the 1981 Act has been amended by section 2 of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3139/schedule/2/paragraph/17",
    "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."
}