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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-immigration-and-asylum-act-2002/section-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/41",
  "legislation_title": "Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nationality-immigration-and-asylum-act-2002",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Resumption of citizenship",
  "text": "In the following provisions of the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61) the words “, if a woman,” shall cease to have effect—\n(a) section 10(1) and (2)(registration as British citizen following renunciation of citizenship), and\n(b) section 22(1) and (2)(registration as British overseas territories citizen following renunciation of citizenship).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at Royal Assent with effect in accordance with s. 162(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/41/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:47.769208+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."
}