THE CITIZENSHIP ACT, 1955
[Act No. 57 of Year 1955 dated 30th. December, 1955]
An Act to provide for the acquisition and determination of Indian
citizenship
Comment: From the resume of the aforementioned provisions of the
Constitution and the Citizenship Act, it becomes clear that whenever any
authority is called upon to decide even for the limited purpose of
another law, whether a person is or is not a citizen of India, the
authority must carefully examine the question and the provisions of the
Citizenship Act extracted hereinbefore. Lal Babu Hussain and others,
Petitioners v. Electoral Registration Officer, AIR 1995 SUPREME COURT
1189
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixth Year of the Republic of
India as follows:
