Dual citizenship

41. Dual citizenship (1) Any person who, upon the attainment of the age of twenty one years, is a citizen of Lesotho and also a citizen of some country other than Lesotho shall cease to be a citizen Page 27 y of Lesotho upon the specified date unless he has renounced his citizenship of that other country, taken the oath of allegiance and, in the case of a person who is a citizen of Lesotho by descent, made and registered such declaration of his intentions concerning residence as may be prescribed by Parliament. (2) A citizen of Lesotho shall cease to be such a citizen if - (a) having attained the age of twenty-one years, he acquires the citizenship of some country other than Lesotho by voluntary act (other than marriage); or (b) having attained the age of twenty-one years, he otherwise acquires the citizenship of some country other than Lesotho and has not, by the specified date, renounced his citizenship of that other country, taken the oath of allegiance and made and registered such declaration of his intentions concerning residence as may be prescribed. (3) A woman who - (a) becomes a citizen of Lesotho by registration under the provisions of section 40 of this Constitution; and (b) is immediately after the day upon which she becomes a citizen of Lesotho also a citizen of some other country, shall cease to be a citizen of Lesotho upon the specified date unless she has renounced the citizenship of that other country, taken the oath of allegiance, and made and registered such declaration of her intentions concerning residence as may be prescribed. (4) For the purposes of this section, where, under the law of a country other than Lesotho a person cannot renounce his citizenship of that other country, he need not make such renunciation but he may instead be required to make such declaration concerning that citizenship as may be prescribed. (5) In this section, "the specified date" means, in respect of a person to whom subsection (1) or (2)(b) or (3), as the case may be, refers, such date as may be specified in relation to that person by or under an Act of Parliament.