Human Rights And Statelessness I N P E N I N S U L AR M AL AYS I A Citizenship by operation of law, post Malaysia Day, is subject to the status of their birth parents which is a clear application of the jus sanguinis principle. This means that for those born within the Federation post Malaysia Day, one of the parents is required to be a citizen or a permanent resident of Malaysia at the time of their birth, in order to qualify for citizenship by operation of law. Similarly to Article 14(1)(a), those born after Malaysia Day outside the Federation are also subject to gender discriminatory provisions that only allow for the father to confer citizenship. Table 7: Citizenship by operation of law provisions in the Federal Constitution based on whether one was born before or after Malaysia Day as well as within or outside the Federation Articles on Provisions for those born Provisions for those citizenship by WITHIN the Federation born OUTSIDE the operation of law Those born BEFORE Federation 1. (a) Every person 1. (d) Every person born Malaysia Day, who immediately outside the Federation based on Section 1, before Merdeka Day, on or after Merdeka Part I of the Second was a citizen of the Day Schedule, subject to Federation by virtue of whose father was a provisions of Part III any of the provisions citizen at the time of of the Constitution of the Federation of his birth and either Malaya Agreement was born in the 1948, whether by Federation or was at operation of law or the time of the birth otherwise. in service under the Government of the 1. (b) Every person born within the Federation on or after Merdeka Day and before October 1962. 54 Federation or of a State.