Article 15A. Special Provisions 15A. Subject to Article 18, the Federal Government power to may, in such special circumstances as it thinks register fit, cause any person under the age of twenty-one children years to be registered as a citizen. 16. Citizenship by 16. Subject to Article 18, any person of or over registration the age of eighteen years who was born in the (persons Federation before Merdeka Day is entitled, upon born in the making application to the Federal Government, Federation to be registered as a citizen if he satisfies the before Federal Government— Merdeka Day) (a) that he has resided in the Federation during the seven years immediately preceding the date of the application, for periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than five years; (b) that he intends to do so permanently; (c) that he is of good character; and (d) that he has an elementary knowledge of the Malay language. 16A. Citizenship 16A. Subject to Article 18, any person of or over by the age of eighteen years who is on Malaysia registration Day ordinarily resident in the State of Sabah or (persons Sarawak is entitled, upon making application to resident in the Federal Government before September 1971, States of to be registered as a citizen if he satisfies the Sabah and Federal Government— Sarawak on Malaysia Day) (a) that he has resided before Malaysia Day in the territories comprised in those States and after Malaysia Day in the Federation for periods which amount in the aggregate to not less than seven years in the ten years 59