Paragraph 6A Application under section 17A of the ActF1

The application must contain information showing—

(a)

that the applicant—

(i)

would have become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under section 5 or 12(2), (3), (4) or (5) of, or paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to, the British Nationality Act 1948^f1 if the applicant’s parents had been treated equally, by that Act or by any relevant previous provision, for the purposes of determining the applicant’s nationality status, or

(ii)

would have been a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies immediately before commencement if the applicant’s parents had been treated equally, for the purposes of determining the applicant’s nationality status, by any independence legislation that caused the applicant to lose that citizenship,

(b)

that, if the applicant had become or been a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), the applicant would have become a British Dependent Territories citizen at commencement under section 23(1)(b) or (c) of the Act, and

(c)

that, if the applicant had become a British Dependent Territories citizen as mentioned in sub-paragraph (b), the applicant would have become a British overseas territories citizen on the commencement of section 2 of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 2 paras. 6A-6P inserted (28.6.2022 except for the insertion of Sch. 2 para. 6K, 23.11.2022 in so far as not already in force) by The British Nationality (General, British Overseas Territories and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/602), regs. 1(2)(3)(a), 3(3)(d); S.I. 2022/1056, reg. 2(a)

Footnotes

f1: Section 24 of the 1981 Act has been amended by section 2 of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002.