{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2014/schedule-9/paragraph-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2014/schedule-9/paragraph-70.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/22",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2014",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/70",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The British Nationality Act 1981 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 14 (meaning of “British citizen “by descent””), in subsection (1), after paragraph (d) insert—\n“(da) the person is a British citizen by descent by virtue of section 4F(3), 4G(2), 4H(2) or 4I(4); or”.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 70(3) omitted (25.7.2019) by virtue of The British Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1164), arts. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 70 in force at 6.4.2015 by S.I. 2015/874, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/22/schedule/9/paragraph/70",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:34.341350+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."
}