Grant of Citizenship to Stateless Persons Act, No. 5 of 1986

Provides Sri Lankan citizenship to persons of Indian origin who were covered by the 1964/1974 pacts but had not been granted citizenship of either country. The Act's preamble explicitly references the 975,000-person estimate and the "stateless residue" problem. Landmark but partial: it left many undocumented individuals outside its scope. **Source 14** **Title:** Grant of Citizenship to Persons of Indian Origin Act, No. 35 of 2003 **Institution:** Parliament of Sri Lanka **Publisher:** LawNet Sri Lanka **Year:** 2003 **URL:** http://www.lawnet.gov.lk/wp-content/uploads/Law%20Site/4-stats_1956_2006/set6/2003Y0V0C35A.html **Tier:** A (primary law text) **Gloss:** The culminating statute granting citizenship to all remaining stateless persons of Indian origin and their descendants. Officially ended over five decades of statelessness. The Act's preamble recapitulates the entire bilateral t