{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-british-overseas-territories-regulations-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-6G",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-british-overseas-territories-regulations-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-6G.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/6G",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6G",
  "heading": "Application under section 17E of the Act",
  "text": "The application must contain information showing—\n(a) that the applicant—\n(i) was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies immediately before commencement, or\n(ii) would have become such a citizen under section 5 or 12(2), (3), (4) or (5) of, or paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to, the British Nationality Act 1948 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\n(iii) would have been such a citizen 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,\n(b) that the applicant would then have automatically become a British Dependent Territories citizen at commencement by the operation of section 23 of the Act, if the applicant’s mother had been married to the applicant’s natural father at the time of the applicant’s birth, and\n(c) that the applicant would then have automatically become a British overseas territories citizen by the operation of section 2 of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3139/schedule/2/paragraph/6G",
    "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."
}