An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act, made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act to explain a Clause in an Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, for naturalizing Foreign Protestants, which relates to the Children of the natural-born Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, to the Children of such Children.
Citation
13 Geo. 3. c. 21
Dates
Royal assent
16 March 1773
Commencement
10 June 1773
Other legislation
Repealed by
British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
The British Nationality Act 1772[1] (13 Geo. 3. c. 21) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain was a British nationality law which made general provision allowing natural-born allegiance (citizenship) to be assumed if the father alone was British.
This Act was one of the British Subjects Acts 1708 to 1772.[2]
The Act was repealed by the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914.
^The short title conferred by the Short Titles Act 1896, s. 1
^The Short Titles Act 1896, s. 2(1) & Sch. 2
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