The Registration of Overseas Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1982

Made: 18th November 1982

Laid before Parliament: 30th November 1982

Coming into Operation: 1st January 1983

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 41(1)(g), (h) and (i) of the British Nationality Act 1981, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and entry into force

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Overseas Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1982 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1983.

Interpretation

2

These Regulations shall be read as one with the Registration of Overseas Births and Deaths Regulations 1982.

Births which may be registered

3

The Registration of Overseas Births and Deaths Regulations 1982 shall be amended as follows:—

• (a) In Regulation 5(1), after paragraph (e), there shall be added the following—

(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

• (b) In Regulation 7(2), paragraph 4, after the words “British Dependent Territories citizenship” shall be added the words “or British Overseas citizenship”.

Signed

Francis Pym — Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs — 18th November 1982

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Regulations amend the Registration of Overseas Births and Deaths Regulations 1982 by extending the provisions for the registration of births in foreign and Commonwealth countries to British Overseas citizens.