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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-british-overseas-territories-regulations-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application under section 15(4) of the Act",
  "text": "If the applicant was absent from the British overseas territory in which he was born for more than 90 days in any one of the first 10 years of his life and it is desired that the application should nevertheless be considered under section 15(7) of the Act (acquisition of citizenship by birth or adoption), the application shall specify the special circumstances to be taken into consideration.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3 in force at 3.12.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 15(7) of the 1981 Act has been amended by section 1 of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3139/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}