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Constitution
Parts 1.
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4.
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13. 14.
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PART
II: CITIZENSHIP
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4.
(1) Every person who immediately
before the commencement of this
constitution was a citizen of Zambia
shall continue to be a citizen of
Zambia after the commencement of this
Constitution.
(2) A person who was entitled to
citizenship of Zambia before the
commencement or this Constitution
subject to the performance of any
conditions following the happening of
a future event, shall become a citizen
upon the performance of such
conditions.
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Citizens
of Zambia |
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5.
A person born in or outside Zambia
after the commencement of this
Constitution shall become a citizen or
Zambia at the date of his birth if on
that date at least one of his parents
is a citizen of Zambia.
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Children
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6.
( 1) Any person who-
(a) has attained the age of twenty-one
years; and
(b)has been ordinarily resident in
Zambia continuous period of not less
than ten years immediately preceding
that person's registration;
shall be entitled to apply to the
Citizenship Board, in such manner as
may be prescribed by or under an Act
of Parliament, to be registered as a
citizen of Zambia.
(2) An application for registration as
a citizen under this Article shall not
be made by or on behalf of any person
who, under any law in force in Zambia,
is adjudged or otherwise declared to
be of unsound mind.
(3) Parliament may provide that any
period during which a person has the
right to reside in Zambia by virtue of
a permit issued under the authority of
any law relating to immigration shall
not be taken into account in computing
the period of ten years referred to in
paragraph (b) of clause (1).
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Persons
entitled to apply to be registered as
Citizens |
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7.
Parliament may make provision for-
(a) the acquisition of citizenship of
Zambia by persons who are eligible to
become citizens of Zambia under this
Part;
(b) depriving any person of that
person's citizenship of
Zambia:
Provided that a person shall not be
deprived of their
citizenship except on the grounds
that-
(i) that person is a citizen of a
country other than
Zambia; or
(ii) that person obtained such
citizenship by fraud.
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Powers
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8.
Parliament may make provision for the
establishment of a Citizenship Board
to dea1 with any of the matters
falling under the provisions of
Articles 6 or 7.
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Citizenship[
Board |
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9.
(1) A person shall cease to be a
citizen of Zambia if that person-
(a) acquires the citizei1Ship of a
country other than Zambia by
a voluntary Act, other than marriage;
and
(b) does any Act indicating that
person's intention to adopt or
make use of any other citizenship.
(2) A person who-
(a) becomes a citizen of Zambia by
registration; and
(b) immediately after becoming a
citizen of Zambia. is also a
citizen of some other country;
shall, subject to clause (4), cease to
be a citizen of Zambia at the
expiration of three months after such
person becomes a citizen of Zambia
unless such person has renounced the
citizenship of that other country,
taken oath of allegiance and made and
registered such declaration of their
intention concerning residence as may
re prescribed by or under an Act of
Parliament.
(3) For the purpose of this Article,
where, under the law of a country
other than Zambia, a person cannot
renounce their citizenship of that
other country that person need not
make such renunciation but may instead
be required to make such declaration
concerning that citizenship as may be
prescribed by or under an Act of
Parliament.
(4) Provision may be made by or under
an Act of Parliament for extending the
period within which any person may
make a renunciation of citizenship,
take oath or make or register a
declaration for the purpose of this
Article, and if such provision is made
that person shall cease to be a
citizen of Zambia only if at the
expiration of the extended period that
person has not then made the
renunciation, taken the oath or made
or registered the declaration, as the
case may be.
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Cesser
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10.
(1) For the purpose of this Part, a
person born aboard a registered ship
or aircraft. or aboard an unregistered
ship or aircraft of the Government of
any country, shall be deemed to have
been born in the place in which the
ship or aircraft was registered or in
that country, as the case may be.
(2) Any reference in this Part to the
national status of the parent of a
person at the time of the birth of
that person shall, in relation to a
person born after the death of his
parent, be construed as a reference to
the national status of the parent at
the time of the parent's death.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is
hereby declared that a person born in
Zambia before 1st April 1986, whose
father was an established resident
shall continue to enjoy the rights and
privileges, under, and remains subject
to the law prevailing immediately
before that date.
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Interpretation |
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5.
The Constitution is amended by the
repeal of Part IV and the substitution
there for of the following:
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Repeal
and replacement of Part IV |
