{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-and-borders-act-2022/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-and-borders-act-2022/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/36",
  "legislation_title": "Nationality and Borders Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-and-borders-act-2022",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Citizenship where mother married to someone other than natural father",
  "text": "(1) The British Nationality Act 1981 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 4E (the general conditions)—\n(a) omit paragraph (a) (requirement that applicant was born before 1 July 2006);\n(b) in paragraph (c), after “1990” insert “or under section 35 or 36 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008”;\n(c) after paragraph (c) (but before the “and”) insert—\n“(ca) no person is treated as a parent of P under section 42 or 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008;”.\n(3) In section 4F (person unable to be registered under other provisions of this Act), in subsection (1)(b), after sub-paragraph (iii) insert—\n“(iiia) section 4D,”.\n(4) In section 41A (registration: requirement to be of good character), in subsection (1A), for “or 3(5)” substitute “, 3(5) or 4D”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 87(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 7 in force at 28.6.2022 by S.I. 2022/590, regs. 1(2), 2, Sch. 1 para. 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/36/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:14.870435+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."
}