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The Ceylon Citizenship Act No. 18 of 1948 was a ... During the 19th and early 20th centuries the British rulers of Ceylon recruited large numbers of South ...
Sri Lankan nationality law details the conditions in which a person is a national of Sri Lanka.The primary law governing nationality regulations is the Ceylon Citizenship Act, which came into force on 15 November 1948.
1948 in Sri Lanka marks the turn from the British Ceylon period to independent modern Sri Lanka. The year saw Sri Lanka, then known as British Ceylon , regain its independence from the British Empire , thus establishing the Dominion of Ceylon .
South Africa: Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970, subsequently renamed the Black States Citizenship Act, 1970, and repealed in 1994 Sri Lanka (Ceylon) : Ceylon Citizenship Act , 1948 United Kingdom : Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948
In 1948, Ponnampalam voted in favour of one of several bills, later known as the Ceylon Citizenship Act which disenfranchised Indian Tamils ("Hill Country Tamils"). [ 8 ] [ 16 ] Although he did not vote for the other bills in the Ceylon Citizenship Act, because of his silence in parliament the Tamil public believed that he was not committed to ...
Senanayake's government introduced the Ceylon Citizenship Act which was passed by parliament on 20 August 1948 and became law on 15 November 1948. Only about 5,000 Indian Tamils qualified for citizenship. More than 700,000 people, about 11% of the population, were denied citizenship and made stateless.
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An important piece of legislation, enacted in 1948, and modified in 1949, was the Indian Citizenship act, which limited citizenship to Indian workers who had at least 10 years of residence in the country [9] This was similar to the requirement which was then current in most European countries.