8 Citizenship: registration in special cases

Powers of the Secretary of State relating to citizenship etc

8  Citizenship: registration in special cases

(1)     The British Nationality Act 1981 is amended as follows.

(2)     After section 4K (as inserted by section 4) insert—

“4L Acquisition by registration: special circumstances

(1)     If an application is made for a person of full age and capacity (“P”) to be registered as a British citizen, the Secretary of State may cause P to be registered as such a citizen if, in the Secretary of State's opinion, P would have been, or would have been able to become, a British citizen but for—

(a)     historical legislative unfairness,

(b)     an act or omission of a public authority, or

(c)     exceptional circumstances relating to P.

(2)     For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), “historical legislative unfairness” includes circumstances

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