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Items 14.1-14.1(1)

Convention on Certain Questions relating to the

Conflict of Nationality Laws, The Hague 1930

International Protocol relating to Military Obligations in certain cases of Double Nationality, The Hague 1930

the

The

Conflict

Convention on Certain Questions Relating to

Laws ('the Convention') was

of

Nationality

concluded at the Hague on 12 April 1930 and entered into

force on 1 July 1937 (text at Annex A)

•

2.

The

Convention reflects general principles of

international law and provides that every State shall have

the power to determine under its own law who are its

nationals (Article 1). This law shall be recognized by

other States insofar as it is consistent with international

conventions, international custom and the principles of law

generally recognized with regard to nationality.

question as to whether a person possesses the nationality

of a particular State shall be determined in accordance

with the law of that State (Article 2).

Any

3.

its national

the States whose

A person having two or more nationalities may be

regarded

by each of

nationality he possesses (Article 3). A State may not give

diplomatic protection to one of its nationals against a

State whose

nationality that person possesses (Article 4).

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