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2.
A State Party shall provide in law for proof of the facts establishing
entitlement to nationality at birth or the conditions for acquisition of
nationality by oral testimony or other appropriate means, in accordance
with its national law on evidence where documentary evidence is not
available or cannot reasonably be demanded.
ARTICLE 12
Documentation of Nationality
1.
A State Party shall provide in its national law for the right to a certificate
of nationality or other appropriate document that is proof of a person’s
nationality and shall define the authorities and procedures to obtain that
document.
2.
A State Party shall issue to every national on application after
satisfaction of the administrative formalities established in national
legislation, the documents legally accepted as proof of nationality.
3.
A State Party shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that
unaccompanied and separated children obtain the documents accepted
as proof of nationality, whether of the State where the child is present or,
where relevant, another State, which shall be issued in their own names.
4.
A State Party shall prohibit all arbitrary acts of cancellation, non-renewal,
confiscation or destruction of the documents referred to in this article
belonging to any person.
5.
When a person holds a document issued by the competent State
authorities indicating that he or she is the national of a State, the burden
shall be on the institution that asserts that he or she is not a national to
prove that the person does not have the nationality to which he or she
claims to be entitled.
ARTICLE 13
Renunciation of Nationality
A State Party shall not prohibit its national from renouncing his or her
nationality, unless such renunciation would render the person stateless, in
accordance with national law.
ARTICLE 14
Loss of nationality
If a State Party does not permit multiple nationality, it may provide for the loss
of its nationality in case of voluntary acquisition by a national of another
nationality.