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
Australia: Australian Citizenship Act 1948, replaced by the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 Bhutan: Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1958 Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1985 Canada: Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946 Canadian Citizenship Act, 1977 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South Africa: Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970, subsequently renamed the Black States Citizenship Act, 1970, and repealed in 1994 Sri Lanka (Ceylon): Ceylon Citizenship Act, 1948 United Kingdom: Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 United States: Indian Citizenship Act, 1924 Child Citizenship Act of 2000 Citizenship Reform Act of 2005 US Citizenship Act of 2021 See also