Section 14: Dual citizenship or nationality not permitted

14. Dual citizenship or nationality not permitted.__ (1) Subject to the provisions of this section if any person is a citizen of Pakistan under the provisions of this Act, and is at the same time a citizen or national of any other country, he shall, unless 3[* * *] he makes a declaration according to the laws of that other country renouncing his status as citizen or national thereof, cease to be a citizen of Pakistan. 3[(1A) Nothing in sub-section (1) applies to a person who has not attained twenty-one years of his age.] (2) Nothing in 3[sub-section (1)] shall apply to any person who is a subject of an acceding State so far as concerns his being a subject of that State. 4[(3) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall apply, or shall be deemed ever to have applied at any stage, to a person who, being or having at any time been, a citizen of Pakistan, is also the citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or of such other country as the Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify in this behalf. (4) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall apply to a female citizen of Pakistan who is married to a person who is not a citizen of Pakistan.]

Effective date: 1951-04-13

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