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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-asylum-and-nationality-act-2006/section-49",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/13",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-asylum-and-nationality-act-2006",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Capacity to make nationality application",
  "text": "After section 44 of the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61) (decisions involving discretion) insert—\n“Waiver of requirement for full capacity\n44A Where a provision of this Act requires an applicant to be of full capacity, the Secretary of State may waive the requirement in respect of a specified applicant if he thinks it in the applicant's best interests.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 49 in force at 31.8.2006 by S.I. 2006/2226, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/13/section/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:51.061548+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."
}