The British Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Made: 19th May 1997

Laid before Parliament: 22nd May 1997

Coming into force: 12th June 1997

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 41(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981[^f00001], and section 2(3) of the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997[^f00002], hereby makes, with the consent of the Treasury, the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the British Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 12th June 1997.

2

The British Nationality (Fees) Regulations 1996[^f00003] shall be amended as follows:

• (a) in regulation 2(1) there shall be added, at the end, “or, as the case may be, under the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997”;

• (b) in regulation 3(1) after “below”, there shall be inserted “or where the Secretary of State otherwise directs,”;

• (c) in the Schedule—

• (i) in the entry numbered 5 for “or any of the former nationality Acts” there shall be substituted “, any of the former nationality Acts or the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997”, and

• (ii) after the entry numbered 6 there shall be added—

Signed

Mike O’Brien — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — 16th May 1997

We consent to these Regulations

Jon Owen Jones — Bob Ainsworth — Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 19th May 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the British Nationality (Fees) Regulations 1996 to prescribe a fee of £250 for applications for British citizenship made under section 1 of the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c. 61.

[^f00002]: 1997 c. 20.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1996/444.