British Nationality Act 1981
c. 6155
Sch. 1
- tioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) or was a member of the family and formed part of the household of a person so entitled;
- (b) any period when he was detained—
- (i) in any place of detention in the relevant territory in pursuance of a sentence passed on him by a court in that territory or elsewhere for any offence;
- (ii) in any hospital in that territory under a direction (however described) made under any law for purposes similar to Part V of the 1959 c. 72.Mental Health Act 1959 which was for the time being in force in that territory, being a direction made in connection with his conviction of an offence and corresponding to a hospital order under that Part; or
- (iii) under any power of detention conferred by the immigration laws of that territory;
- (c) any period when, being liable to be detained as mentioned in paragraph (b)(i) or (ii) of this sub-paragraph, he was unlawfully at large or absent without leave and for that reason liable to be arrested or taken into custody;
- (d) any period when, his actual detention under any such power as is mentioned in paragraph (b)(iii) of this sub-paragraph being required or specifically authorised, he was unlawfully at large and for that reason liable to be arrested.
Interpretation
10. In this Schedule “the relevant territory” has the meaning given by section 18(3).
Section 36.SCHEDULE 2
Provisions for Reducing Statelessness
Persons born in the United Kingdom after commencement
1.—(1) Where a person born in the United Kingdom after commencement would, but for this paragraph, be born stateless, then, subject to sub-paragraph (3)—
- (a) if at the time of the birth his father or mother is a citizen or subject of a description mentioned in sub-paragraph (2), he shall be a citizen or subject of that description; and accordingly
- (b) if he is born legitimate and at the time of the birth each of his parents is a citizen or subject of a different description so mentioned, he shall be a citizen or subject of the same description so mentioned as each of them is respectively at that time.
(2) The descriptions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen and a British subject under this Act.
