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Citizenship and Nationality
- English
(1) A person born on or after the thirty-first day of January One thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight is a Nauruan citizen if his parents were Nauruan citizens at the date of his birth.
(2) A person born on or after the thirty-first day of January One thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight is a Nauruan citizen if he is born of a marriage between a Nauruan citizen and a Pacific Islander and neither parent has within seven days after the birth of that person exercised a right prescribed by law in the manner prescribed by law to determine that that person is not a Nauruan citizen. (Art. 72)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English(1) If a person who is a citizen of some other country or entitled to be registered as such is entitled to registration as a citizen under section 92, he or she shall not, by reason only that he or she is or may become a citizen of that other country, be refused registration under that section or be required to renounce his or her citizenship of that country as a condition of being registered under that section.
… (Sec. 93)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English
A person who is entitled to obtain the citizenship of Nepal by descent in accordance with this Constitution may obtain a certificate of citizenship of Nepal with gender identity by the name of his or her mother or father. (Art. 12)
- Nepali
यो संविधान बमोजिम वंशजको आधारमा नेपालको नागरिकता प्राप्त गर्ने व्यक्तिले निजको आमा वा बाबुको नामबाट लैंगिक पहिचान सहितको नेपालको नागरिकताको प्रमाणपत्र पाउन सक्नेछ । (धारा १२)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English1. Without prejudice to and subject to the provisions of sections 11, 112, 113, 114 and 115 of this Constitution, Parliament may, pursuant to the provisions of this section, make provision for the acquisition of citizenship by registration.
… (Sec. 116)