Paragraph 14

In the case of an applicant who claims to be a British citizen, who does not hold a valid United Kingdom passport describing the applicant as a British citizen and who was born or adopted in the United Kingdom before 1^st January 1983, the applicant’s birth certificate or adoption certificate in a form which contains details of the parents, or, as the case may be, adoptive parents of the applicant, in so far as they are included on the relevant register.