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NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2004/ PAUSA 18, 1925

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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 8th January, 2004/Pausa 18, 1925 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 7th January, 2004, and is hereby published for general information:—

THE CITIZENSHIP (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003

No. 6 of 2004

[7th January, 2004.]

An Act further to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955.

Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

Short title and commencement. 1.(1) This Act may be called the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint:

Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the commencement of that provision.

Amendment of section 2. 2. In section 2 of the Citizenship Act, 195557 of 1955. (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in sub-section (1),—

(i) for clauses (b) and (c) and the proviso to clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—