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Grant of Citizenship to Stateless Persons Act (No. 5 of 1986) - Sect 5

Registration as a citizen of Sri Lanka under this Act

5. Where a person is granted the status of Sri Lanka citizen by the Minister under this Act, upon his taking the prescribed oath or affirmation of citizenship within the prescribed period, the Minister shall.
(a) cause such person to be registered as such citizen in a register to be kept for that purpose, by the entry in that register, of the name and other prescribed particulars of such person;
(b) issue to such person, a certificate of registration in the prescribed form and shall include in such certificate, the name of every child under the age of fourteen years of such person, on the date of such issue; and
(c) publish in the Gazette, a notification setting out the fact that such person has been registered as a citizen of Sri Lanka under this Act.


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