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Convention on the

Reduction of Statelessness, New York 1961

Item 14.3

was

The

Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

concluded at New York on 30 August 1961 and entered

into force on 13 December 1975 (text at Annex A).

2.

The Convention provides that a contracting State

shall grant its nationality to a stateless person born in

its territory. Such nationality shall be granted at birth

by Operation of law or upon an application (subject to

certain conditions) being lodged with the appropriate

authority (Article 1(1)-(2)). Notwithstanding the above, a

State and whose

child born in wed lock in the territory of a Contracting

mother has the nationality of that State,

shall acquire that nationality at birth if he would

otherwise be stateless (Article 1(3)). A Contracting State

shall grant its nationality to a stateless person who is

unable (because Of failure to meet the age limit ΟΙ

requirements) to acquire the nationality of the Contracting State where he was born, if the nationality of

one of his parents at the time of his birth was that of the

Contracting State (Article 1(4)).

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