Under the British Nationality Act of 1981, British Overseas Territories citizens from Gibraltar are, upon application, entitled to be registered as British citizens.

In January 1983, when the British Nationality Act came into force, St. Helenians had their citizenship rights taken away.

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30. The adoption of the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill, which grants the right to members of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong who have no other nationality than their present British nationality to be registered as full British citizens and thus to enjoy the right of abode in the United Kingdom, is noted with appreciation by the Committee.

In regard to this article, the Jordanian Nationality Act stipulates that

The Netherlands Nationality Act also gives minor children improved status in the granting of Dutch nationality by means of naturalisation.

The Court of Appeal considered that there was, on this issue, no difference in substance between the British Columbia Commercial Arbitration Act and the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Act, Statutes of British Columbia, 1986, Chapter 14.

The Committee commends the entry into force of the Act of 24 July 2001 amending the Luxembourg Nationality Act of 22 February 1968 by easing the conditions for obtaining Luxembourg nationality.

The Netherlands Nationality Act (RWN) underwent radical change as from 1 April 2003.

The Act governing nationality and the residence of foreigners was adopted in 1959.

The Netherlands Nationality Act was also amended when the Adoption (Conflict of Laws) Act ( the WCAD') entered into effect on 1 January 2004.

Under the Netherlands Nationality Act, a person above the age of eighteen who is acknowledged as the child of an Aruban does not immediately acquire Dutch nationality.

In 1963, a new Nationality Act was adopted, basing nationality on jus sanguinis but considering that only those whose names appeared in the 1965 census were Kuwaiti.

Ms. Mboga (Gabon) said that the Act introducing the new Nationality Code had now been adopted.

IFACAT is based in Paris. Mr. Patrick Byrne, who has dual British and French nationality, has served as President since November 1998.

Ms. Azouri (Lebanon) said that nationality in Lebanon was governed by Decree No. 15 of 19 January 1925 as amended by the Nationality Act of 11 January 1960.

Various discriminatory articles in the Nationality Act, the Penal Code and the Personal Status Act that confirm the gap with the Constitution and the Convention

The Youth Justice Act (British Columbia) was passed in 2003 and came into force in 2004.

Under this Act, women now have equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality.

Reviewing the articles in question, it is evident that Syrian women may transmit their nationality to their children only in the cases stipulated in article 3 of the Nationality Act.

It consolidated provisions of the Young Offenders (British Columbia) Act and youth provisions of the Correction Act into a comprehensive provincial statute written specifically for youth.

Under the Act, St. Helenians may hold British passports and may also work anywhere within the European Union.

Hence, article 28 of the Syrian Nationality Act provides that The Council of State, in its capacity as an administrative law body, shall have the exclusive competence to adjudicate in nationality proceedings.

On 25 November 1997, the British Nationality (St. Helena) Bill H.L. , to provide for the acquisition of British citizenship by persons having connections with St. Helena, as passed by the House of Lords, was introduced in the House of Commons.

Article 6 of Law No. 149 (Nationality Act of 1992) provides that Nicaraguans, whether male or female, who are married to aliens shall retain their nationality even if they acquire the nationality of their spouse in accordance with the law of the spouse's country, provided that they do not expressly renounce their Nicaraguan nationality.

Together with the Syrian Women's League, it also held a listening session on the Nationality Act on 17 June 2004.

The British Overseas Territories Act, which came into force in 2002, grants the right to full British citizenship to all inhabitants of the Territories and formally abolishes the terms colony and dependent territory .

British, from British Guiana.

Act No. 29 1995 of 2 November amends article 26 of the Civil Code, and establishes the requirements for restoration of nationality.

Saint Helenians had been without a nationality when they were deprived of British citizenship, which was only restored in 2002, and they did not want a recurrence of this.

Following the entry into force of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Act of May 2002, which provides British citizenship to the people of the United Kingdom's Overseas Territories, St. Helenians regained their right to British citizenship.

The Overseas Territories Act, which came into force in 2002, provides British citizenship to the peoples of its Overseas Territories, including Bermudians.

The work currently under way for the removal of this reservation and amendment of the Nationality Act has now reached its final stages.

Represented by the Ministry of the Interior, the executive has responsibility for application of the Nationality Act and the enforcement of its provisions.

Amendments to the Nationality Act had been enacted in 1997 and the Republic of Korea s reservations to article 9 would soon be withdrawn.

Despite the positive climate, however, discriminatory articles still remain in certain laws relating to the family and the life of women, such as the Nationality Act, the Personal Status Act and the Penal Code.

Persons who renounce Colombian nationality may have it restored only after a period of two years from the date of the act of renunciation.

The recovery of this far flung British dependency, whose citizens were resolutely committed to remaining British subjects after the Argentine invasion, was a daring military act. It could have gone terribly wrong, bringing down her and her administration.

The nationality status of a Syrian Arab woman following her marriage to an alien is clarified in article 12 of the Nationality Act, which provides that If a Syrian Arab woman marries an alien and the law to which the husband is subject gives her the right to acquire his nationality, she must apply to the Syrian authorities to keep her Syrian Arab nationality in addition within one year of having acquired the nationality of her alien husband.

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