Constitutional amendments enacted in March 2026 following the failed 2025 referendum
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- Nauru
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- English
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- in force
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Provision text
Official sourceArticle 72 Persons born on or after 31 January 1968
(1) A person born on or after the thirty-first day of January One thousand nine hundred
and sixty-eight is a Nauruan citizen if his parents were Nauruan citizens at the date
of his birth.
(2) A person born on or after the thirty-first day of January One thousand nine hundred
and sixty-eight is a Nauruan citizen if he is born of a marriage between a Nauruan
citizen and a Pacific Islander and neither parent has within seven days after the birth
of that person exercised a right prescribed by law in the manner prescribed by law to
determine that that person is not a Nauruan citizen.
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Constitutional amendments enacted in March 2026 following the failed 2025 referendum · nauru.gov.nr · Retrieved 18 August 2026.
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