Citizenship Act

A Citizenship Act (or a variant thereof) is a piece of legislation, used to regulate citizenship within a country. Many countries have, or have had, laws bearing the name.

List of Citizenship Acts

• Australia: Australian Citizenship Act 1948, replaced by the Australian Citizenship Act 2007
• Bhutan:
  • Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1958
  • Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1985
• Canada:
  • Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946
  • Canadian Citizenship Act, 1977
• India: Citizenship Act, 1955
• Ireland: there have been several Irish Nationality and Citizenship Acts in Irish nationality law
• New Zealand: British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948
• Slovakia: Citizenship Act (Slovakia)
• South Africa: Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970, subsequently renamed the Black States Citizenship Act, 1970, and repealed in 1994
• Sri Lanka (Ceylon): Ceylon Citizenship Act, 1948
• United Kingdom: Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948
• United States:
  • Indian Citizenship Act, 1924
  • Child Citizenship Act of 2000
  • Citizenship Reform Act of 2005
  • US Citizenship Act of 2021

See also

• All pages with titles containing Citizenship Act