The law changes
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THREE bills were introduced in Tonga’s Parliament during the emergency session which began on February 18. Amending the consti tution, the Nationality Act and the Passport Act, they were passed after four days of debate. Part of the amended section of the constitution, 29A (1), now says; “It shall be lawful for the King and the Legislative Assembly to enact specific laws declaring any persons, whether or not they have ever resided in Tonga, to be or to have become naturalised subjects of Tonga from any date. All persons who are declared to be naturalised subjects of Tonga by any such legislation shall have, and shall be deemed to have had from the effective dates of their naturalisations, the same rights and privileges as other
foreigners becoming naturalised sub
jects of Tonga by the grant to them of certificates of naturalisation.” □