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Section 33: Registration of certain alien women entitled to registration as British subjects immediately before commencement.

British Nationality Act 1981 · 1981 c. 61View on legislation.gov.uk

This provision is repealed
It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

Part IV: British Subjects

REPEALED on 2002-11-07 by Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.

The text below is the provision as originally enacted. It is historical and may not include amendments made before this status change. View the enacted source.

A woman who immediately before commencement was the wife of a British subject shall be entitled, on an application for her registration as a British subject made within five years after commencement, to be registered as a British subject if—

immediately before commencement she would (if she had applied for it) have been entitled under section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1965 to be registered as a British subject by virtue of her marriage to the man who was then her husband; and
on the date of the application under this section that man is a British subject; and
she remained married to him throughout the period from commencement to that date.

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