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(5)
Where upon an application by a man, for registration under clause (1) of this article, it appears to the
authority responsible for the registration that a marriage has been entered into primarily with a view
to obtaining the registration, the authority may request the applicant to satisfy him that the marriage
was entered into in good-faith; and the authority may only effect the registration upon being so
satisfied.
(6)
In the case of a man seeking registration, clause (1) of this article applies only if the applicant
permanently resides in Ghana.
8 DUAL CITIZENSHIP
(1)
A citizen of Ghana may hold the citizenship of any other country in addition to his citizenship of
Ghana.
(2)
Without prejudice to article 94(2)(a) of the Constitution, no citizen of Ghana shall qualify to be
appointed as a holder of any office specified in this clause if he holds the citizenship of any other
country in addition to his citizenship of Ghana(a) Ambassador of High Commissioner;
(b) Secretary to the Cabinet;
(c) Chief of Defence Staff or any Service Chief;
(d) Inspector-General of Police;
(e) Commissioner, Customs, Excise and Preventive Service;
(f) Director of Immigration Service; and
(g) any office specified by an Act of Parliament.
(3)
Where the law of a country requires a person who marries a citizen of that country to renounce the
citizenship of his own country by virtue of that marriage, a citizen of Ghana who is deprived of his
citizenship by virtue of that marriage shall, on the dissolution of that marriage, become citizen of
Ghana.
Ghana 1992 (rev. 1996)
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