Citizenship Act
A Citizenship Act 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- South Africa: Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970, subsequently renamed the Black States Citizenship Act, 1970, and repealed in 1994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 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