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In Palestine, citizenship was governed by the Palestine Citizenship Order of 24 July 1925 (Statutory Rules and Orders, I925, No. 777; which came into force on 1 August 1925), amended by various successive orders. This defined a Palestinian as a 'Turkish subject habitually resident in the territory of Palestine". The amended text of the Order of 24 July 1925 is worded as follows:"Turkish citizens habitually resident in the territory of Palestine upon the 6th day of August 1924 shall become Palestinian citizens."Turkish citizens born in Palestine who left Palestine before 6 August 1924 were given the right of option on condition that they could prove that they had unbroken ties with their place of origin and give formal assurances of their intention to return to Palestine. The right of option expired on 24 July 1945.
Article 7 of the Palestine Mandate required the Administration of Palestine to enact a nationality law. The law was to include “provisions framed so as to facilitate the acquisition of Palestinian citizenship by Jews who take up their permanent residence in Palestine.”
In pursuance of Article 7, the Palestine Citizenship Order was issued in 1925, and this order, as amended from time to time, regulated Palestine citizenship for the remaining twenty-three years of the Mandate. Subject to the right to opt for Turkish and other nationalities, all Turkish subjects—Jew and non-Jews—habitually resident in the territory of Palestine became, on August 1, 1925, Palestine citizens. Other Turkish nationals born within Palestine could also acquire Palestine citizenship even though they had not been previously resident in Palestine.
Palestine citizenship could also be acquired by birth. Any person born to a father who was a Palestine citizen himself acquired Palestine citizenship whether or not the birth took place in Palestine. Moreover, any person born within Palestine who did not by his birth acquire the nationality of any other Sate was deemed to be a Palestine citizen. Finally, Palestine citizenship could be acquired by any person by means of naturalization, the main precondition being a period of residence in Palestine.
In addition to the material listed below, which has been explicitly marked as referring to this topic, there may be other material whose text contains the name of this topic. Select material containing the phrase: Palestine Citizenship Order 1925
#64458 Arab Citizenship
by Paul Eidelberg in Foundation for Constitutional Democracy website, some date before 2008
#64464 Report by his Britannic Majesty's government on the administration under mandate of Palestine and Transjordan for the year 1924
by British Government 31 December 1924
#64456 Report by his Britannic Majesty's Government to the council of the League of Lations on the administration of Palestine and Transjordan for the year 1925
by British Government 31 December 1925
#64463 The Legislation of Palestine, 1918-1925
by Norman de Mattos Bentwich in Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, 1926
#64460 Constitutional Aspects of the Mandate for Palestine
by S. D. Myres in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1932
#56731 Palestine Nationality and the Mandate
by Norman de Mattos Bentwich in Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, 1939
#61796 Rex v. Ketter
by American Journal Of International Law Staff in American Journal of International Law, July 1940
#64455 Definition of a "refugee" under paragraph 11 of the General Assembly Resolution of 11 December 1948
by United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine 9 April 1951
#64461 Statelessness among Palestinian Refugees
by Abbas Shiblak June 2003
#64457 The Nationality of Denationalized Palestinians
by Victor Kattan in Nordic Journal of International Law, February 2005
#64454 Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
by Terry Rempel in Forced Migration Review, August 2006