{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-overseas-territories-act-2002/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/8",
  "legislation_title": "British Overseas Territories Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-overseas-territories-act-2002",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Conferral on British overseas territories citizens",
  "text": "(1) Any person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, is a British overseas territories citizen shall, on the commencement of this section, become a British citizen.\n(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who is a British overseas territories citizen by virtue only of a connection with the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.\n(3) A person who is a British citizen by virtue of this section is a British citizen by descent for the purposes of the British Nationality Act 1981 if, and only if—\n(a) he was a British overseas territories citizen by descent immediately before the commencement of this section, and\n(b) if at that time he was a British citizen as well as a British overseas territories citizen, he was a British citizen by descent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/8/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:42.694043+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."
}