Sierra Leone Citizenship Amendment Bill 2017
Publié : 22/Juin/2017
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 :
« Every person born outside Sierra Leone on or after the nineteenth day of April 1971, of a father or mother who was or would but for [his] the death of the person have been a citizen of Sierra Leone by virtue of sections 2, 3 and 4, is a citizen of Sierra Leone by birth. »
Download version of legislation as proposed to parliament, believed to reflect the final text as adopted: Sierra Leone Citizenship Amendment Bill 2017