Zanzibar Nationality Decree 1952

Replacing the Zanzibar Nationality and Naturalization Decree 1911 and providing for the rules on acquisition and loss of the status of subject of Zanzibar.

“Every person born after the commencement of this Decree within the Dominions of His Highness the Sultan shall be a Zanzibar subject by birth”.

This rule does not apply to subjects or citizens of states listed in the Third Schedule.