A Citizenship Act (or a variant thereof) is a piece of legislation, used to regulate citizenship within a country. Many countries have, or have had, laws bearing the name.
List of Citizenship Acts
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- Australia: Australian Citizenship Act 1948, replaced by the Australian Citizenship Act 2007
- Bhutan:
- Canada:
- India: Citizenship Act, 1955
- Ireland: there have been several Irish Nationality and Citizenship Acts in Irish nationality law
- New Zealand: British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948
- Slovakia: Citizenship Act (Slovakia)
- South Africa: Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970, subsequently renamed the Black States Citizenship Act, 1970, and repealed in 1994
- Sri Lanka (Ceylon): Ceylon Citizenship Act, 1948
- United Kingdom: Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948
- United States:
