Gambia Constitution 1965
Published: 18/Fév/1965
Schedule to The Gambia Independence Order 1965, UK Statutory Instrument No. 135 of 1965
CHAPTER I: CITIZENSHIP
Persons who become citizens on 18th February 1965
1.—(1) Every person who, having been born in The Gambia, is on 17th February 1965 a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British protected person shall become a citizen of The Gambia on 18th February 1965:
Provided that a person shall not become a citizen of The Gambia by virtue of this subsection if neither of his parents nor any of his grandparents was born in The Gambia.
(2) Every person who, on 17th February 1965, is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies—
(a) having become such a citizen under the British Nationality Act 1948 by virtue of his having been naturalised in The Gambia as a British subject before that Act came into force; or
(b) having become such a citizen by virtue of his having been naturalised or registered in The Gambia under that Act,
shall become a citizen of The Gambia on 18th February 1965.
(3) Every person who, having been born outside The Gambia, is on 17th February 1965 a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British protected person shall, if his father becomes,or would but for his death have become, a citizen of The Gambia by virtue of subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section, become a citizen of The Gambia on 18th February 1965.
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Persons born in The Gambia after 17th February 1965
3. Every person born in The Gambia after 17th February 1965 shall become a citizen of The Gambia at the date of his birth:
Provided that a person shall not become a citizen of The Gambia by virtue of this section if at the time of his birth—
(a) neither of his parents is a citizen of The Gambia and his father possesses such immunity from suit and legal process as is accorded to the envoy of a foreign sovereign power accredited to The Gambia; or
(b) his father is a citizen of a country with which The Gambia is at war and the birth occurs in a place then under occupation by that country.
Persons born outside The Gambia after 17th February 1965
4. A person born outside The Gambia after 17th February 1965 shall become a citizen of The Gambia at the date of his birth if, at that date, his father is a citizen of The Gambia otherwise than by virtue of this section or section 1(3) of this Constitution.
Marriage to citizen of The Gambia
5. Any woman who is married to a citizen of The Gambia or who has been married to a man who was, during the subsistence of the marriage, a citizen of The Gambia shall be entitled, upon making application in such manner as may be prescribed by or under an Act of Parliament, to be registered as a citizen of The Gambia.
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