Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) Act 2025

Commons bill Government Bill 2025-26 Act of Parliament

Passed — Royal Assent 27 October 2025
Sponsor
Yvette Cooper (Labour)
+ 1 co-sponsor
  • Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour)
Introduced
19 June 2025
Royal Assent
27 October 2025
About this bill

A Bill to Make provision about the effect, during an appeal, of an order under section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981.

Parliamentary stages

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Commons
First reading 19 Jun 2025
Second reading 30 Jun 2025
Programme motion 30 Jun 2025
Third reading 14 Jul 2025
Lords
First reading 15 Jul 2025
Second reading 14 Oct 2025
Committee stage 21 Oct 2025
Report stage 21 Oct 2025
Third reading 21 Oct 2025
Final stages
Royal Assent 27 Oct 2025

Parliamentary information from bills.parliament.uk ↗, licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Explanatory Notes extracts are verbatim from Parliament's published documents.

What this bill is about

From the Explanatory Notes (July 2025):

1 The purpose of the Bill is to prevent a person who has been deprived of any form of British nationality from automatically regaining that status during the period in which an appeal against the lower court’s judgment may be brought and, should an appeal be brought, pending its determination. This is necessary following the Supreme Court judgment in N3(ZA) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] UKSC 6. 2 The Bill has two clauses and only one substantive clause.
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