{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/virgin-islands-constitution-amendmentorder-2000/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1343",
  "legislation_title": "The Virgin Islands (Constitution) (Amendment)Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/virgin-islands-constitution-amendmentorder-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of section 2 of Constitution",
  "text": "(1) Section 2 of the Constitution shall be amended by replacing subsection (2) by the following:—\n“(2) For the purposes of this Order a person shall be deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands if that person—\n(a) is born in the Virgin Islands and at the time of the birth his father or mother is—\n(i) a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of birth, registration or naturalisation in the Virgin Islands or by virtue of descent from a father or mother who was born in the Virgin Islands; or\n(ii) settled in the Virgin Islands; and for this purpose “settled” means ordinarily resident in the Virgin Islands without being subject under the law in force in the Virgin Islands to any restriction on the period for which he may remain; or\n(b) is born in the Virgin Islands of a father or mother who is deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands by birth or descent or who, if deceased, would, if alive, be deemed so to belong to the Virgin Islands; or\n(c) is a child adopted in the Virgin Islands by a person who is deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands by birth or descent; or\n(d) is born outside the Virgin Islands of a father or mother who is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of birth in the Virgin Islands; or\n(e) is a British Dependent Territories citizen by virtue of naturalisation or registration in the Virgin Islands; or\n(f) is a person to whom a certificate has been granted under section 16 of the Immigration and Passport Act 1977 of the Virgin Islands (in this subsection referred to as “the Act”, and references to the Act or to any section thereof include references to any enactment amending, replacing or re-enacting the same) and has not been revoked under section 17 of the Act; or\n(g) is a spouse of a person deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands and has been granted a certificate under section 16 of the Act.”.\n(2) For the purposes of the Constitution as amended by this Order, a person shall also be deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands if, immediately before the date on which this section comes into force, that person was deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands by virtue of section 2(2) of the Virgin Islands (Constitution) Order 1976:\nProvided that a person who was deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands by virtue of section 2(2)(e) of that Order and who subsequent to attaining the age of twenty-one years is ordinarily resident outside the Virgin Islands for a period of not less than five years shall cease to be deemed to belong to the Virgin Islands.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1343/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:23.813934+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."
}