Rights of
citizenship of
certain persons
resident abroad
8. The Government may, upon application made to it in this
behalf, register as a citizen of Bangladesh any person who, or
whose father or whose father's father, was born in the IndoPakistan sub-continent and who is ordinarily resident in a country
outside Bangladesh at the commencement of this Act, if he has,
unless exempted by the Government in this behalf, obtained a
certificate of domicile:
Provided that a certificate of domicile shall not be required in the
case of any such person who is out of Bangladesh under the
protection of a Bangladesh passport, or in the case of any such
person whose father or whose father's father is at the
commencement of this Act residing in Bangladesh or becomes,
before the aforesaid application is made, a citizen of Bangladesh.
Citizenship by
naturalization
9. The Government may, upon an application made to it in that
behalf by any person who has been granted a certificate of
naturalisation under the Naturalisation Act, 1926, register that
person as a citizen of Bangladesh by naturalisation:
Provided that the Government may register any person as a
citizen of Bangladesh without his having obtained a certificate of
naturalisation as aforesaid.
Married women
10. (1) Any woman who by reason of her marriage to a British
subject before the first day of January, 1949, has acquired the
status of a British subject shall, if her husband becomes a citizen
of Bangladesh, be a citizen of Bangladesh.
(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1) and sub-section
(4) a woman who has been married to a citizen of Bangladesh or
to a person who but for his death would have been a citizen of
Bangladesh under sections 3, 4 or 5 shall be entitled, on making
application therefore to the Government in the prescribed manner,
and, if she is an alien, on obtaining a certificate of domicile and
taking the oath of allegiance in the form set out in the Schedule
to this Act, to be registered as a citizen of Bangladesh whether or
not she has completed twenty-one years of her age and is of full
capacity.
(3) Subject as aforesaid, a woman who has been married to a
person who, but for his death, could have been a citizen of
Bangladesh under the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 6
(whether he migrated as provided in that sub-section or is deemed
under the proviso to section 7 to have so migrated) shall be
entitled as provided in sub-section (2) subject further, if she is an
alien, to her obtaining the certificate and taking the oath therein
mentioned.