date of
commencement
of this Act
to be a citizen of Bangladesh-
(a) who or any of whose parents or grandparents was born in the
territory now included in Bangladesh and who after the fourteenth
day of August, 1947, has not been permanently resident in any
country outside Bangladesh; or
(b) who or any of whose parents or grandparents was born in the
territories included in India on the thirty-first day of March, 1937,
and who, except in the case of a person who was in the service
of Bangladesh or of any Government or Administration in
Bangladesh at the commencement of this Act, has or had his
domicile within the meaning of Part II of the Succession Act,
1925, as in force at the commencement of this Act, in Bangladesh
or in the territories now included in Bangladesh; or
(c) who is a person naturalised as a British subject in Bangladesh;
and who, if before the date of the commencement of this Act he
has acquired the citizenship of any foreign State, has before that
date renounced the same by depositing a declaration in writing to
that effect with an authority appointed or empowered to receive it;
or
(d) who before the commencement of this Act migrated to the
territories now included in Bangladesh from any territory in the
Indo-Pakistan sub-continent outside those territories with the
intension of residing permanently in those territories.
Citizenship by
birth
4. Every person born in Bangladesh after the commencement of
this Act shall be a citizen of Bangladesh by birth:
Provided that a person shall not be such a citizen by virtue of this
section if at the time of his birth-
(a) his father possesses such immunity from suit and legal process
as is accorded to an envoy of an external sovereign power
accredited in Bangladesh and is not a citizen of Bangladesh ; or
(b) his father is an enemy alien and the birth occurs in a place
then under occupation by the enemy.
Citizenship by
descent
5. Subject to the provisions of section 3 a person born after the
commencement of this Act, shall be a citizen of Bangladesh by
descent if his 4[ father or mother] is a citizen of Bangladesh at
the time of his birth: