CHAPTER III
Citizenship
Citizenship
regulated by law.
Substituted by:
III.2000.2.
22.
(1) The acquisition, possession,
renunciation and loss of
Maltese citizenship shall be
regulated by law.
(2) Dual or multiple citizenship is
permitted in accordance with
any law for the time being in force
in Malta.
Commonwealth
citizens.
Amended by:
XLI. 1965.3;
IX. 1967;
XXIII. 1989.6.
Renumbered by:
III.2000.4.
23.
(1) Every person who under this
Constitution or any Act
of Parliament is a citizen of Malta
or under any enactment for the
time being in force in any country to
which this article applies is a
citizen of that country shall, by
virtue of that citizenship, have the
status of a Commonwealth citizen.
(2) Every person who is a British
subject without citizenship
under the British Nationality Act,
1948 or who continues to be a
British subject under article 2 of
that Act shall by virtue of that
status have the status of a
Commonwealth citizen.
(3) The countries to which this
article applies are those listed in
the Fourth Schedule to this
Constitution.
(4) The President may by Proclamation
amend, add to, revoke
or substitute the list of countries
in the Fourth Schedule to this
Constitution.
Criminal liability
of Commonwealth
citizens.
Renumbered and
amended by:
III.2000.5.
24.
(1) A Commonwealth citizen who is not
a citizen of Malta
or a citizen of the Republic of
Ireland who is not a citizen of Malta
shall not be guilty of an offence
against any law in force in Malta
by reason of anything done or omitted
in any part of the
Commonwealth other than Malta or in
the Republic of Ireland or in
any foreign country unless -
(a) the act or omission would
be an offence if he were an
alien; and
(b) in the case of an act or
omission in any part of the
Commonwealth or in the Republic of
Ireland, it would
be an offence if the country in which
the act was done
or the omission made were a foreign
country.
(2) In this article -
"alien" means a person who is not a
Commonwealth citizen, a
British protected person or a citizen
of the Republic of Ireland;
"British Protected Person" means a
person who is a British
protected person for the purposes of
the British Nationality Act,
1948 or any other law of the United
Kingdom replacing that Act;
"foreign country" means a country
(other than the Republic of
Ireland) that is not a part of the
Commonwealth.
Acquisition of
citizenship by birth
or descent by
persons born on or
after appointed
day.
Substituted by:
XXIII. 1989.3.
25.
Repealed by Act III of 2000.
Marriage to citizen
of Malta.
Amended by:
LVIII.1974.8.
Substituted by:
XXIII.1989.4.
26.
Repealed by Act III of 2000.
Dual citizenship.
Amended by:
XXXVII. 1966.2;
LVIII. 1974.9;
XXIII. 1989.5.
27.
Repealed by Act III of 2000.
28.
and 29. were renumbered by
Act III of 2000.
Powers of
Parliament.
30.
Repealed by Act III of 2000.
Interpretation.
Amended by:
LVIII.1974.10;
X.1977.2;
XXIII. 1989.7.
31.
Repealed by Act III of 2000.
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See also:
Constitution of Malta Act, 1964
