{"id":117,"date":"1997-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/gambia-constitution-1996-chapter-iii\/"},"modified":"2021-04-05T13:55:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T13:55:41","slug":"gambia-constitution-1997-chapter-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/gambia-constitution-1997-chapter-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution of The Gambia 1997, Chapter III, as amended 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approved by national referendum on 8 August 1996, entered into force on 16 January 1997 (Act No. 1 of 1997).<\/p>\n<p>Chapter III of the Constitution governs citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Gambia_Constitution_on_Citizenship_1997.pdf\" rel=\"\">Gambia Constitution, 1997, Chap III, as amended 2001<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, Article 62 provides that a person shall be qualified for election as president only if he or she is a citizen of The Gambia by birth or descent and does not hold the citizenship of a country other than The Gambia.<\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gambia_Constitution_on_Presidency_1997.pdf\" rel=\"\">Gambia Constitution on Presidency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full updated text: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawhubgambia.com\/1997-constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.lawhubgambia.com\/1997-constitution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Approved by national referendum on 8 August 1996, entered into force on 16 January 1997 (Act No. 1 of 1997). Chapter III of the Constitution governs citizenship. Download: Gambia Constitution, 1997, Chap III, as amended 2001 In addition, Article 62 provides that a person shall be qualified for election as president only if he or [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-gambia","region-west-africa","type-national-laws-and-regulations","item-year-475","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31236,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/31236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}