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New Zealand nationality law details the conditions by which a person is a national of New Zealand. The primary law governing these requirements is the Citizenship Act 1977, which came into force on 1 January 1978. Regulations apply to the entire Realm of New Zealand, which includes the country of New Zealand itself, the Cook Islands, Niue ...
- British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948
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New Zealand nationality law treats all parts of the realm...
- British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948
New Zealand nationality law details the conditions by which a person is a national of New Zealand. The primary law governing these requirements is the Citizenship Act 1977, which came into force on 1 January 1978.
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The constitution of New Zealand is the sum of laws and principles that determine the political governance of New Zealand. Unlike many other nations, New Zealand has no single constitutional document.
Citizenship and naturalisation. A country’s citizens possess full legal, social and political rights and obligations within its borders; non-citizens, no matter how long their residence, do not. Nearly all babies born in New Zealand, whatever the nationality of their parents, automatically become New Zealand citizens.
With the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948, all British subjects who were living in New Zealand at the time, and almost everyone born in New Zealand after the act came into force, became New Zealand citizens as well as British subjects. Aliens and citizens.
