31 (a) an air, military or naval force; (b) the Swaziland Royal Police Service; (c) the Swaziland Correctional Services. “member” in relation to a disciplined force, includes any person who, under the law regulating the discipline of that force, is subject to that discipline; “period of public emergency” means any period so declared under section 36. “property” means property, movable or immovable, corporeal or incorporeal, of any description whatever including Swazi nation land and any right or interest lawfully held by any person in that property. CHAPTER 1V CITIZENSHIP Part 1 Acquisition of Citizenship Citizen of Swaziland 40. A person who, on the commencement of this Constitution, is a citizen of Swaziland shall continue to be such citizen. Citizenship by descent 41. A person born, whether before or after the commencement of this Constitution and whether in or outside of Swaziland, is a citizen by descent if by birth that person is a descendant. Citizenship by operation of law 42. (1) A person born in or outside Swaziland before the commencement of this Constitution shall be a citizen of Swaziland by operation of law if at the birth of that person one of the parents was a citizen of Swaziland. (2) In this section “citizen by operation of law” refers to a person who was born before the existence of the status of a citizen of Swaziland and was a member of a class of persons ­ (a) generally regarded as Swazi by descent; and (b) subsequently declared by law to be citizens of Swaziland. (3) This section shall cease to apply to a person being a citizen of another country who, on being so required by the Board in terms of section 49 (1) (d), has failed to renounce that other citizenship ­ (a) within one year after that person attains the age of majority (or within such extended period as the Board may allow); or (b) where that person attained the age of majority before the commencement of this Constitution, within one year after that commencement (or within such extended period as the Board may allow). Citizenship by birth 31

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