Section 2 Additional grounds for citizenship by birth.

A person born within the United Kingdom and Colonies after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by birth if his mother was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time when he was born and he would, apart from this subsection, be stateless.

Where after the commencement of this Act a new-born infant is found abandoned within the United Kingdom and Colonies, that infant shall, unless the contrary is shown, be deemed to have been born within the United Kingdom and Colonies.