A person born outside the United Kingdom shall be entitled, on an application for his registration as a British citizen made while he is a minor, to be registered as such a citizen if the following requirements are satisfied, namely— 在英國境外出生的小孩(原文所指的Minor,是18歲以下的小孩),如果滿足以下三項條件,可以註冊為英籍:
(a)that at the time of that person’s birth his father or mother was a British citizen by descent; and 在該小孩出生的時候,其父親或母親已經為British citizen by descent
(b)subject to subsection (6), that that person and his father and mother were in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the period of three years ending with the date of the application and that, in the case of each of them, the number of days on which the person in question was absent from the United Kingdom in that period does not exceed 270; and 該小孩與其父親及母親,在申請英籍那天為計,已在英國住滿三年,並在過去三年期間,每人總共沒有離開英國超過270天 (註:如其父親或母親其中一方已經離世,或婚姻關係已經完結,或在法律上正式分開,則只需要小孩與其中一方父母,達到居住要求則可)
(c)subject to subsection (6), that the consent of his father and mother to the registration has been signified in the prescribed manner. 該小孩的父親與母親,均同意這英籍的申請。
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