Statutory Instruments
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES ETC. ABROAD
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:—
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.
2. These Regulations shall be read as one with the Registration of Overseas Births and Deaths Regulations 1982.
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”.
Francis Pym
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
18th November 1982
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.