Repealed and Replaced the Registration of Births and Deaths Proclamation No.17 of 1947. Download: Lesotho Births and Deaths Registration Act 1973
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Repeals and replaces the Aliens and Nationality Law, 1956. Chapter 20 on nationality at birth provides: § 20.1. Citizens of Liberia at birth. The following shall be citizens of Liberia at birth: (a) A person who is a Negro, or […]
Includes provisions on custody, guardianship and adoption of children. Download: Liberia Domestic Relations Law 1973
An act to provide for a uniform law for the registration of all births and deaths in Zambia, without distinction of origin or descent; and to provide for matters incidental thereto. Download file: here
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 […]