Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951 — section 3

3. Citizenship at the date of commencement of this Act. At the commencement of this Act, every person shall be deemed to be a citizen of Pakistan

(a)who or any of whose parents or grandparents was born in the territory now included in Pakistan and who after the fourteenth day of August, 1947, has not been permanently resident in any country outside Pakistan; or

(b)who or any of whose parents or grandparents was born in the territories included in India on the thirty first day of March, 1937, 2[and who, except in the case of a person who was in the service of Pakistan or of any Government or Administration in Pakistan at the commencement of this Act, has] or had his 1 This Act shall, during the continuance of the Defence of Pakistan Ordinance, 1971 (XXX of 1971), have effect subject to the provision of section 7 (4) of that Ordinance. It has also been brought into force in Baluchistan with effect on and from the 13 th day of April, 1951, see Gazette of Pakistan, 1952, Pt. I, p. 218; applied in the Federated Areas of Baluchistan, see ibid., 1953, Pt. I, p. 152; extended to the Leased Areas of Baluchistan by the Leased Areas (Laws) Order, 1950 (G.G.O. 3 of 1950); extended to the Khairpur State by the Khairpur (Federal Laws) (Extension) Order, 1953 (G.G.O. 5 of 1953); extended to the Baluchistan States Union by the Baluchistan States Union (Federal Laws) (Extension) Order, 1953 (G.G.O. 4 of 1953) ; extended to the State of Bahawalpur by the Bahawalpur (Extension of Federal Laws) Order, 1953 (G.G.O. 11 of 1953), as amended; and also brought in to force in Gwadur with effect from the 8th September, 1958, by the Gwadur (Application for Central Laws) Ordinance, 1960 (37 of 1960), s. 2. 2 Omitted and subs. by Act No. V of 1952, ss. 2&3. domicile within the meaning of Part II of the Succession Act, 1925 (XXXIX of 1925), as in force at the commencement of this Act, in Pakistan or in the territories now included in Pakistan; or

(c)who is a person naturalised as a British subject in Pakistan; and who, if before the date of the commencement of this Act he has acquired the citizenship of any foreign State, has before that date renounced the same by depositing a declaration in writing to that effect with an authority appointed or empowered to receive it; 1[or] 1 [(d) who before the commencement of this Act migrated to the territories now included in Pakistan from any territory in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent outside those territories with the intention of residing permanently in those territories] 1 [* * * * * * *]