Legislation
Maltese Citizenship Act (Cap. 188)
- Art. 2(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires - "alien" means a person who is not a citizen of Malta;
- Art. 3(1) Every person who, having been born in Malta, was on the day before the appointed day a citizen of the Unit
- Art. 4(1) Any person who on the day before the appointed day was or had been mar ried to a person - (a) who became a
- Art. 5( 1 ) E ve r y pe r s o n b o r n i n M a l t a on o r a f te r t he a p p oi n t e d day shall be deemed to h
- Art. 6(1) Any person who on or after the appointed day marries a person who is or becomes a citi zen of Malta shall
- Art. 7It shall be lawful for any person to be a citizen of Malta, and at the same time a ci tizen of another country
- Art. 8Any person who prior to the coming into force of this article was deemed under the provisions of the Constitut
- Art. 9Any person who was at any time a citizen of Malta in terms of articles 3 or 5 of this Act or in terms of artic
- Art. 10(1) An alien or a stateless person, being a person of full age and capacity, on making appli cation therefor t
- Art. 11(1) The Minister may cause the minor child of any citizen of Malta to be granted a certificate of naturalisati
- Art. 12A person registered as a citizen of Malta or granted a certificate of natural isation under this Act shall bec
- Art. 13(1) If any citizen of Malta of full age and capacity who is also a national of a foreign country makes a decla
- Art. 14(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, the Minister may by order deprive of his Maltese citizenship an
- Art. 15(1) A citizen of Malta who is deprived of his citizenship by an order of the Minister under article 14 shall,
- Art. 16For the purposes of Parts V and VI of this Act, any person who has been married shall b e deemed to be of full
- Art. 17(1) In this Act - (a) any reference to the father of a person shall, in relation to a person born out of wedl
- Art. 18Any reference in this Act to the national status of the father of a person at the time of that person’s birth
- Art. 19The Minister shall not be required to assign any reason for the grant or refusal of any application under this
- Art. 20The Minister may in such cases as he thinks fit, on the application of any person with respect to whose citize
- Art. 21(1) Every application under this Act shall be made to the Minister. (2) Every application to the Minister unde
- Art. 22(1) Every document purporting to be a notice, certificate, order or declaration, or any entr y in a register,
- Art. 23(1) Any person who, for the purpose of procuring anything to be done or not to be done under this Act, makes a
- Art. 24( 1 ) T h e P r e s i d e n t o f M a l t a m a y b y r e g u l a t i o n s m a k e provision generally for ca
- Art. 25(1) The Prime Minister, after consulting the Leader of the Opposition, shall appoint as a Regulator for the pu
- Art. 25A(1) The Regulator may also investigate complaints received by the applicant in the prescribed form, about the
- Art. 25B(1) There shall be a Committee, to be known as the Monitoring Committee, to monitor the workings for the proce
- Art. 26(1) The Minister and any officer of the Government authorised in that behal f by the Minister may: (a) declare
- Art. 27(1) The acquisition or retention of Maltese citizenship by any person under the Constitution of Malta or any o
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