{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-general-regulations-2003/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-general-regulations-2003/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/548",
  "legislation_title": "The British Nationality (General) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-nationality-general-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Authority to whom declaration of renunciation is to be made",
  "text": "The authority to whom a declaration of renunciation is to be made is as follows:\n(a) if the declarant is in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, to the Secretary of State at the Home Office;\n(b) if the declarant is in any of the Islands, to the Lieutenant-Governor;\n(c) if the declarant is in a British overseas territory, to the Governor;\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) if the declarant is elsewhere, to the Secretary of State at the Home Office.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 9(d) omitted (12.11.2015) by virtue of The British Nationality (General) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1806), regs. 1, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 9(e) substituted (16.7.2012) by The British Nationality (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1588), regs. 1, 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/548/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:21.742433+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."
}