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Article 6 - Classes of Nationality and Civil Capacity

  1. Where the Fundamental Laws or subordinate legislation establish distinct classes of nationality, this Code applies to each class in accordance with the rights and duties assigned to it.

  2. Unless otherwise provided by law:

  1. Full nationals possess full civil capacity under this Code, including the capacity to marry, adopt, inherit, and enter into all forms of juridical acts recognised by Kaharagian law.
  2. Protected persons possess civil capacity in matters of contract, movable property, and personal status, subject to such limitations as the law may prescribe. Protected persons may not adopt under Kaharagian law unless expressly authorised.
  3. Honorary nationals possess civil capacity in such matters as the instrument of conferral may specify. In the absence of specification, honorary nationality confers the right to use the title and style of a Kaharagian national but does not confer civil capacity beyond that of a non-national.

  1. No class of nationality may be denied the fundamental civil rights guaranteed under Title VI of the Fundamental Laws.

  2. A person who transitions from one class of nationality to another acquires the civil capacities of the new class from the date of the transition. Juridical acts validly performed under the former class remain valid.

  3. Where a juridical act requires a specific class of nationality as a condition of validity, the requisite class must be held at the time the act is performed. Subsequent change of class does not retroactively invalidate the act.