Deprivation of British Citizenship

  UK Government has the power to deprive someone of their British Citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1981. Section 40(2) allows the government to deprive someone of their Citizenship if “that deprivation is conducive to the public good” but such an order should not be made if deprivation of British citizenship “would make a person stateless”, under section 40(4) of the Act. However, in 2014, section 4A was inserted into the Act, making deprivation possible, in certain circumstances, even where a person may be rendered stateless as a result. Under Section 40(3) a person can be deprived of Citizenship if it was obtained using fraud, false representations, or through concealment of a material fact or facts. Under separate government powers, Citizenship can be nullified (made null and void) if it was obtained through using a fraudulent identity. Unlike deprivation, where Citizenship is stripped from the individual, nullification has a retrospective effect; the result of nul