{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-overseas-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1982/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-overseas-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1982/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1647",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Overseas Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-overseas-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1982",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Births which may be registered",
  "text": "The Registration of Overseas Births and Deaths Regulations 1982 shall be amended as follows:—\n(a) In Regulation 5(1), after paragraph (e), there shall be added the following—\n“(f) the birth of a person, born before commencement, who acquired at birth citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies and who became a British Overseas citizen at commencement”.\n(b) In Regulation 7(2), paragraph 4, after the words “British Dependent Territories citizenship” shall be added the words “or British Overseas citizenship”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1647/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:11:42.373356+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."
}