{"id":14844,"date":"2017-06-22T20:28:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=14844"},"modified":"2019-11-29T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T11:08:51","slug":"sierra-leone-citizenship-amendment-bill-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/sierra-leone-citizenship-amendment-bill-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Citizenship Amendment Bill 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amends section 5 of the 1973 Act to remove gender discrimination in transmission of citizenship to children born outside the country. The new version provides (deletions in brackets, additions in bold) that :<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every person born outside Sierra Leone on or after the nineteenth day of April 1971, of a father <strong>or mother<\/strong> who was or would but for [his] <strong>the<\/strong> death <strong>of the person<\/strong> have been a citizen of Sierra Leone by virtue of sections 2, 3 and 4, is a citizen of Sierra Leone by birth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Download version of legislation as proposed to parliament, believed to reflect the final text as adopted: <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sierra-Leone-Citizenship-Amendment-Bill-2017.pdf\">Sierra Leone Citizenship Amendment Bill 2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amends section 5 of the 1973 Act to remove gender discrimination in transmission of citizenship to children born outside the country. The new version provides (deletions in brackets, additions in bold) that : &#8220;Every person born outside Sierra Leone on or after the nineteenth day of April 1971, of a father or mother who was [&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-14844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-sierra-leone","type-national-laws-and-regulations","item-year-631","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844","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=14844"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25340,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions\/25340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}