[Article 24]
Federal Constitution
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(3) (Repealed).
(3a) Without prejudice to the generality of Clause (2), the
exercise of a vote in any political election in a place outside
the Federation shall be deemed to be the voluntary claim and
exercise of a right available under the law of that place; and for
the purposes of Clause (2), a person who, after such date as the
Yang di-Pertuan Agong may by order* appoint for the purposes
of this Clause—
(a) applies to the authorities of a place outside the Federation
for the issue or renewal of a passport; or
(b) uses a passport issued by such authorities as a travel
document,
shall be deemed voluntarily to claim and exercise a right available
under the law of that place, being a right accorded exclusively
to the citizens of that place.
(4) If the Federal Government is satisfied that any woman who
is a citizen by registration under Clause (1) of Article 15 has
acquired the citizenship of any country outside the Federation by
virtue of her marriage to a person who is not a citizen, the Federal
Government may by order deprive her of her citizenship.
Deprivation of citizenship by registration under Article 16a
or 17 or by naturalization
25. (1) The Federal Government may by order deprive of his
citizenship any person who is a citizen by registration under
Article 16a or 17** or a citizen by naturalization if satisfied—
(a) that he has shown himself by act or speech to be disloyal
or disaffected towards the Federation;
(b) that he has, during any war in which the Federation is
or was engaged, unlawfully traded or communicated
with an enemy or been engaged in or associated with
any business which to his knowledge was carried on in
such manner as to assist an enemy in that war; or
(c) that he has, within the period of five years beginning with
the date of the registration or the grant of the certificate,
been sentenced in any country to imprisonment for a
*October 10, 1963—see L.N. 268/1963.
**NOTE—This Article has been repealed vide Constitution (Amendment) Act 1962 [Act No. 14
of 1962] w.e.f. 1 July 1963—see L.N. 105/1963. See also notes on Article 17.
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