Advisory Opinion on the Question of Acquisition of Polish Nationality

Advisory Opinion on the Question of Acquisition of Polish Nationality

(1923) P.C.I.J., Ser. B, No. 7 . On the League of Nations' Council ' s request of 7 July 1923 as to whether

the interpretation of art. 4 of the Polish Minorities Treaty of 28 June 1919 ( 25 C.T.S. 412 )

respecting the nationality of persons formerly of German nationality born in Polish territory

was within the competence of the League, and, if so, what the precise interpretation

was, on 15 September 1923 the Court advised (unanimously) that the League was competent

The minorities régime established by the Treaty and placed under the guarantee of

the League embraced all inhabitants of non-Polish origin, whether Polish nationals or not

Further, the stipulations of art. 4 attributing Polish nationality to persons born of parents

habitually resident in the territory concerned were to be taken to refer only to such residence

at the dates of such persons' births and not to require residence also at the date of

coming into force of the Treaty.[1]

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1. The entry “acquisition of polish nationality, advisory opinion on the question of” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press