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.