{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-falkland-islands-act-1983/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-falkland-islands-act-1983/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/6",
  "legislation_title": "British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-falkland-islands-act-1983",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Acquisition of British citizenship at commencement of 1981 Act or by birth or adoption.",
  "text": "(1) A person shall at commencement become a British citizen if––\n(a) that person becomes a British Dependent Territories citizen at commencement under section 23 of the 1981 Act (persons becoming British Dependent Territories citizens at commencement); and\n(b) immediately before commencement either—\n(i) that person was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies who had that citizenship by his birth, naturalisation or registration in the Falkland Islands; or\n(ii) one of that person’s parents, or a parent of one of that person’s parents, was, or but for his death would have been, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies who so had that citizenship; or\n(iii) that person, being a woman, was, or had at any time been, the wife of a man who by virtue of subparagraph (i) or (ii) becomes a British citizen at commencement or would have done so but for his death.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(2)-(5) repealed (21.5.2002) by 2002 c. 8, s. 7, Sch. 2; S.I. 2002/1252, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/6/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:09:34.660357+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."
}