legally represented at the hearing of the
application before the Court.
Restoration 14.
Of citizenship
(3)
If the High Court is satisfied that the
Secretary of State has established that the
person concerned has acted in a manner
described in subsection (1) and notified that
person, and, in a case referred to in
paragraph © or (d) of subsection (1) that it is
not conducive to the public good that the
person concerned should continue to be a
citizen of The Gambia, it shall made an
order depriving that person his or her
citizenship of The Gambia.
(4)
Nothing in this or any other provision of this
Constitution or any other law shall be
construed has depriving, or authorising any
person or authority to deprive, any citizen of
The Gambia by birth or descent of his or her
citizenship of The Gambia whether on
account of such citizen holding the
citizenship or nationality of some other
country or for any other cause.
A citizen of The Gambia who loses his or her citizenship of The
Gambia as a result of the acquisition or profession of the
citizenship of some other country shall, on the renunciation of the
citizenship of that other country, be entitled to be registered, or if
he or she was formerly a citizen by birth or descent, to be officially
recognised, as a citizen of The Gambia.
An act of the National Assembly may make Provision for
(a)
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the acquisition of the citizenship of The Gambia by
persons who are not eligible to become citizens
under the provisions of this Chapter;
(b). the renunciation by any person of his or her
citizenship of The Gambia; and
(c)
generally to give effect to the provisions of this
Chapter.
Interpretation 16.
chapter III
(1)
in this Chapter, “Secretary of State” means the Secretary of
State for the time being responsible for citizenship matters.
(2)
For the purposes of this Chapter, a person, born aboard a
registered ship or aircraft, aboard an unregistered ship or
aircraft of the government of any country, shall be deemed
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