Replacing the Zanzibar Nationality and Naturalization Decree 1911 and providing for the rules on acquisition and loss of the status of subject of Zanzibar. “Every person born after the commencement of this Decree within the Dominions of His Highness the […]
Repealed by the Arab League Minsters of Foreign Affairs Council (Res 02/2256/ 1994). Download (Arabic only): Arab Convention on Nationality of Arabs not in their country of birth 1952
Eritrea: report of the United Nations Commission for Eritrea; report of the Interim Committee of the General Assembly on the report of the United Nations Commission for Eritrea Paragraph 1: Eritrea shall constitute an autonomous unit federated with Ethiopia under […]
The first comprehensive Citizenship Act of South Africa as a fully independent state, adopted as part of the framework established by the British Nationality Act of 1948, and repealing previous laws regulating nationality of the Union of South Africa as […]
Download: Sudan Definition of Sudanese Ordinance 1948
[Date of commencement: 16th May, 1949.] An Ordinance to make Provision for the Registration of Persons in the Colony and for the issue of Identity Cards, and for purposes connected therewith. Download text as published in the Laws of Kenya, […]
Original text of the Act at Cap.149 Laws of Kenya 2012. Download: Kenya Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance No2 1928 original
Act No.18 of 1914, amended by Acts No. 18 of 1916, 3 of 1922, 58 of 1933, and 1 of 1958. Chapter 218, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 “All marriages celebrated under this Act shall be good and […]
“3. The following persons are Zanzibaris by birth: (a) The child, whether born in our Dominions or not, of a Zanzibari father who was born in our Dominions or became our subject by naturalization. (b) The child born in our […]
Chapter 41:01 Laws of The Gambia, 1990 An Act to make provision for the registration of births, deaths and marriages. Act 11 of 1886, 20th December 1886 8 of 1845 5 of 1883 7 of 1916 5 of 1919 41 […]
Adopted by the Constitutional Convention held in Monrovia in July 1847, and enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives at their First Session, held in Monrovia, January and February, 1848. “Article 13. The great object of forming these Colonies, […]