Status

(1) With effect from the appointed date, there shall be a status to be known as “citizen of Belize”. (2) A person shall be or become entitled to the status of a citizen of Belize in one of the following ways only– (a) by right of descent as provided by this Act; (b) by virtue of registration as provided by this Act. (3) In any context in which a distinction is drawn according as that status is based on descent or registration, a citizen of Belize is referred to as “citizen by descent” or “citizen by registration”; and the status of such citizen is in the like context referred to as “citizenship by descent” or “citizenship by 7