Section 1 Acquisition of British citizenship at commencement of 1981 Act or by birth or adoption.

United Kingdom

(1)

A person shall at commencement become a British citizen if––

(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

(b)

immediately before commencement either—

(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

(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

(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.

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(3)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 1(2)-(5) repealed (21.5.2002) by 2002 c. 8, s. 7, Sch. 2; S.I. 2002/1252, art. 2(c)