Human Rights And Statelessness I N P E N I N S U L AR M AL AYS I A Table 8: Citizenship by registration provisions under Articles 15, 15A, 16, 16A Article 15. Citizenship by Provisions (1) Subject to Article 18, any married woman registration whose husband is a citizen is entitled, upon (wives and making application to the Federal Government, children of to be registered as a citizen if the marriage was citizens) subsisting and the husband a citizen at the beginning of October 1962, or if she satisfies the Federal Government— (a) that she has resided in the Federation throughout the two years preceding the date of the application and intends to do so permanently; and (b) that she is of good character. (2) Subject to Article 18, the Federal Government may cause any person under the age of twenty-one years of whose parents one at least is (or was at death) a citizen to be registered as a citizen upon application made to the Federal Government by his parent or guardian. (3) Subject to Article 18, a person under the age of twenty-one years who was born before the beginning of October 1962, and whose father is (or was at his death) a citizen and was also a citizen at the beginning of that month (if then alive), is entitled upon application made to the Federal Government by his parent or guardian, to be registered as a citizen if the Federal Government is satisfied that he is ordinarily resident in the Federation and is of good character. 58