{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solomon-islands-act-1978/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solomon-islands-act-1978/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/15",
  "legislation_title": "Solomon Islands Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solomon-islands-act-1978",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "British protected persons.",
  "text": "(1) A person who immediately before Independence Day is a British protected person by virtue of his connection with the Solomon Islands protectorate—\n(a) shall cease to be a British protected person on that day if he then becomes a citizen of Solomon Islands or is then a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; but\n(b) otherwise, shall continue on and after that day to be a British protected person, subject to subsection (3) below.\n(2) A person born on or after Independence Day and before 7th July 1980 shall become a British protected person if—\n(a) he does not at birth acquire another nationality or become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; and\n(b) his father was born in Solomon Islands and is, at the date of the birth, a British protected person by virtue of subsection (1).\n(3) A person who continues to be a British protected person under subsection (1), or becomes one under subsection (2), shall cease to be a British protected person—\n(a) on becoming at any time a citizen of Solomon Islands or of the United Kingdom and Colonies;\n(b) on 7th July 1980, if he then has another nationality; or\n(c) after that day, on acquiring another nationality.\n(4) A person who becomes a British protected person on 7th July 1980 by virtue of section 2(4) of this Act shall cease to be a British protected person if, on or after that day, he becomes a citizen of Solomon Islands or of the United Kingdom and Colonies, or acquires another nationality.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 2(1), 4(5) repealed by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), Sch. 9"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/15/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:06.015196+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."
}