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. […]
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 […]
Includes provisions on custody, guardianship and adoption of children. Download: Liberia Domestic Relations Law 1973
La loi n 73-10 du 27 février 1973 qui a modifié le Code de la Nationalité Nigérienne a été publiée selon la procédure d’urgence et est devenue applicable à partir du 1er mars 1973. Ses principales dispositions sont les suivantes: […]
Amends articles 9, 30 & 58 of the nationality code to modify the rules on acquisition through double jus soli, to prohibit dual nationality for adults even if a second nationality was automatically attributed at birth, and to provide for […]
1963 Constitution provisions on citizenship 1960 Nigerian Citizenship Act 1961 Nigerian Citizenship Act 1961 Nigerian Citizenship (Naturalization) Regulations 1968 Nigerian Citizenship (Validation) Decree Annotated texts annexed to: Arthur V.J. Nylander, The Nationality and Citizenship Laws of Nigeria, Lagos: University of […]
Télécharger: Cote dIvoire Loi No 72-852 modification code de la nationalite
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As amended by the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act No.5 of 1971 to provide citizenship to those born in Malawi only if one parent was a citizen of Malawi (text in bold in section 4), as well as a person […]
Summary: The facts: The plaintiffs had been born to Lebanese parents in the Gold Coast becoming citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies by birth. The Gold Coast became independent as the State of Ghana in 1957. In 1968 the […]
Download file: Burundi Ordonnance ministérielle n°100-167 du 19 novembre 1971
First post-independence law. Download file: Décret-loi n°1-93 du 10 août 1971 portant code de la nationalité burundaise