Paragraph 11 F1
United Kingdom
An application under section 4C of the Act shall contain information showing—
that the applicant was born before 1st January 1983;
that the applicant would at some time before 1st January 1983 have become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies—
under section 5 or 12(2) of, or paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to, the British Nationality Act 1948 if (as the case may be) that section or paragraph provided for citizenship by descent from a mother in the same terms as it provided for citizenship by descent from a father and if references in that provision to a father were references to the applicant’s mother; or
under section 12(2), (3), (4) or (5) of the British Nationality Act 1948 if a provision of the law at some time before 1st January 1949, which provided for a nationality status to be acquired by descent from a father, provided in the same terms for its acquisition by descent from a mother and if references in that provision to a father were references to the applicant’s mother; F2and
that immediately before 1st January 1983 the applicant would have had the right of abode in the United Kingdom by virtue of section 2 of the Immigration Act 1971 had he become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies as described in either sub-paragraph (b)(i) or (ii) above; F3...
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Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Sch. 2 para. 11 and-cross-heading substituted (13.1.2010) by The British Nationality (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3363), regs. 1, 4(4)
- F2
Word in Sch. 2 para. 11(b) inserted (25.7.2019) by The British Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1164), arts. 1(1), 4(2)(a)
- F3
Word in Sch. 2 para. 11(c) omitted (25.7.2019) by virtue of The British Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1164), arts. 1(1), 4(2)(b)
- F4
Sch. 2 para. 11(d) omitted (25.7.2019) by virtue of The British Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1164), arts. 1(1), 4(2)(c)