Some of these were defined in the British Nationality Act 1981, which came into force on 1 January 1983.

The Nationality Act was amended several times between 1960 and 1985, making access to nationality increasingly difficult.

Article 2 of the Nationality Act provides three situations in which a person can become a Japanese national at birth:

British Nationality Acts were passed in 1958, 1964 (twice) and 1965:

Nationality Act of 1940, full text.

To make that happen, law enforcement officials have increasingly been looking to a federal statute, the 1996 Immigration and Nationality Act.

One such was 32(5) of the British Nationality Act 1948.

Thailand's first Nationality Act was passed in 1913.

Gardner's major contribution to the law was the British Nationality Act 1981.

Moreover the British Nationality Act 1772 allowed people to be considered English if their father was, although born abroad.