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Swaziland Citizenship Regulations 1975

April 12, 1975 2:44 pm Published by Comments Off on Swaziland Citizenship Regulations 1975

1. Citation. These regulations may be cited as the Citizenship Regulations, 1975. 2. Prescription of application forms. The forms, set out I the first Schedule hereto are prescribed to be the forms to be completed by a person applying for […]


Nigeria Constitution Amendment Decree 1974

October 8, 1974 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Nigeria Constitution Amendment Decree 1974

Repeals Nigerian Citizenship Acts 1960 and 1961 and amends provisions on citizenship in 1963 constitution. Download file here.


Swaziland Citizenship Order No. 22 of 1974

September 3, 1974 6:43 am Published by Comments Off on Swaziland Citizenship Order No. 22 of 1974

Supplementing the Swaziland Citizenship Act No.17 of 1967, & repealing section 4. Repealed and replaced by the Swaziland Citizenship Act No 14 of 1992 Download: Swaziland Citizenship Order 1974


Some Legal Questions Arising from the Expulsion of the Ugandan Asians

April 1, 1974 10:40 am Published by Comments Off on Some Legal Questions Arising from the Expulsion of the Ugandan Asians

Some Legal Questions Arising from the Expulsion of the Ugandan Asians By Vishnu D. Sharma and F. Wooldridge The International and Comparative Law Quarterly Vol. 23, No. 2 (Apr., 1974), pp. 397-425 Read on JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/758441


Lesotho: Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1974

February 28, 1974 8:04 am Published by Comments Off on Lesotho: Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1974

Legal Notice No.14 of 1974. Providing procedures for implementation of Births and Deaths Registration Act 1973. Download: Lesotho Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1974


Sudanese Nationality Act 1957 (last amended 1974)

January 1, 1974 4:22 pm Published by Comments Off on Sudanese Nationality Act 1957 (last amended 1974)

Extract: 5. Definition of Sudanese by descent. (1) A person born before the commencement of this Act shall be a Sudanese by descent, if – (a) (i) he was born in the Sudan, or his father was born in the […]


Constitution of Zambia, Act No.27 of 1973, Part II on Citizenship

August 25, 1973 5:20 pm Published by Comments Off on Constitution of Zambia, Act No.27 of 1973, Part II on Citizenship

Articles 6 and 7 provide: 6. A person born in or outside Zambia after the commencement of this constitution shall become a citizen of Zambia at the date of his birth if on that date at least one of his […]


Loi No. 1973-186 portant modification du Code de la nationalité mauritanienne

July 30, 1973 5:30 pm Published by Comments Off on Loi No. 1973-186 portant modification du Code de la nationalité mauritanienne

Provides for a woman married to a Mauritanian man to have the right to apply for nationality (rather than automatic attribution), and allows for shorter period of residence in case of naturalisation of a man married to a Mauritanian woman. […]


Sierra Leone Citizenship Act No.4 of 1973

May 24, 1973 9:53 am Published by Comments Off on Sierra Leone Citizenship Act No.4 of 1973

Original unamended version. In relation to citizenship attributed at birth, the law provides that: 2. Citizenship by birth Every person who, having been born in Sierra Leone before the nineteenth day of April, 1971, or who was resident in Sierra […]