{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/papua-new-guinea-western-samoa-and-nauru-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1980/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/papua-new-guinea-western-samoa-and-nauru-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1980/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/2",
  "legislation_title": "Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa and Nauru (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/papua-new-guinea-western-samoa-and-nauru-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1980",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Commonwealth citizenship.",
  "text": "(1)\n(2) It is hereby declared that Papua New Guinea has never been a colony within the meaning of the British Nationality Act 1948.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(1) repealed by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(3) repealed (8.11.1995) by 1995 c. 44, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II Gp. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1948 c. 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/2/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:16:55.773153+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."
}