1. THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1981 Act of Parliament concerning British nationality The basis of British nationality law since 1 January 1983

2. THE BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT 1981:HISTORY mid-1970s: the British Government dicedes to update the British Nationality Act 1948 1977: a Green Paper was produced to reform the nationality code 1980: a White Paper was produced containing the government’s specific plans for change 1981: the new British Nationality Act received Royal Assent 1 January 1983: the British Nationality Act 1981 came into force

3. ACT’S PURPOSES Reclassification of CUKC Modification of Jus soli Other changes

4. ACT’S PURPOSES:RECLASSIFICATION Three categories of Citizeship of United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC): – British citizenship – British Dependent Territories citizenship (BDTC) – British Overseas citizenship

5. ACT’S PURPOSES:RECLASSIFICATION 1962: with the Commonwealth Immigrants Act not all CUKCs had the Right of Abode in the UK: – the Act wanted to restore the link between citizenship and right of abode – it guranteed British citizenship would carry a right of abode in the UK – the other categories of British nationality would not hold such status

6. ACT’S PURPOSES:RECLASSIFICATION After 1977’s Green Paper all three categories of British Nationality (British citizenship, BDTC, British Overseas citizens) got the Right of Adobe in the United Knigdom

7. ACT’S PURPOSES: JUS SOLI The Act modified Jus soli’s application in British Nationality: – it is necessary for at least one parent of a UK-born child to be a British citizen or a permanent resident of the United Kingdom – the most of children born in the UK still acquire British citizenship at birth

8. ACT’S PURPOSES: OTHER CHANGES Mothers were allowed to pass British citizenship to their children Rght of Abode could no longer be acquired by non-British citizens Commonwealth and Irish citizens had to apply for naturalisation to acquire British citizenship Women married to British men could no longer acquire British citizenship purely by marriage British Crown Colonies were renamed British Dependent Territories

9. THE SUPREME COURT ACT 1981 Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom it defines the structure of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and includes: it’s being amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 which established a new Supreme Court of the UK and changed the title into the Senior Courts Act 1981 – the Court of Appeal – the High Court of Justice – the Crown Court

10. THE REPRESENTATION OF PEOPLE ACT The Representation of the Act 1983 changed the British electoral process in the following ways : amended the 1969 Representation of the People Act stated that a convicted person cannot vote at any parliamentary or local election whilst in prison laid down the appeals process in local elections