Section 17: Certificate of domicile
The Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951 · Civil Laws · in_force
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17. Certificate of domicile. The 1[Federal Government] may upon an application being made to it in the prescribed manner containing the prescribed particulars grant a certificate of domicile to any person in respect of whom it is satisfied that he has ordinarily resided in Pakistan for a period of not less than one year immediately before the making of the application, and has acquired a domicile therein.
Effective date: 1951-04-13
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