IOR/R/15/2/1457

The file contains a public notice and the following correspondence about Iraqi and Iranian nationality laws:

• A circular memorandum dated 1927 from the British High Commissioner for Iraq, Baghdad, about the effect of the Iraq Nationality Law upon foreigners born in Iraq, so that the Political Agent, Bahrain and others could give further publication to the fact that the Iraq Government had provisionally extended up to 31 December 1927, the period during which renunciation of Iraq nationality could be made by persons already of age, who were born in Iraq and whose fathers were born and resident in Iraq;
• A public notice in English and Arabic dated 1927, issued by the Political Agent, Bahrain, advising eligible Iraqis of the extended period during which they might relinquish Iraq nationality;
• A memorandum from the Political Officer, Trucial Coast, Sharjah dated 1940, enquiring about the liability to conscription of certain travellers from Bahrain to Iraq and Iran, under the Iraq and Iranian nationality laws of 1924 and 1929 respectively;
• A circular letter and despatch from the British Ambassador to Iraq, Baghdad, in 1942, about persuading the Iraqi Government to lower the residency fees levied on foreigners living in Iraq, under the Iraq Stamp Law, including an exemption for British and British Indian subjects;
• A letter from the Political Agent, Bahrain dated 1943, enquiring about subjects from the Trucial Coast Sheikdoms living in Iraq, also being exempted from Iraq residency fees.

The file also contains English translations of the following laws and regulations:

• Compilation of laws and regulations issued between 1st January 1924 and 31st December, 1925, published by the Government of Iraq, Ministry of Justice, Baghdad, 1926;
• The Hijaz (Hejaz) Nationality Law, 1926;
• The Saudi Arabian Nationality Regulation No.3, 1938;
• Iraqi Law No.40 of 1942, amending the Iraq Stamp Law No.30 of 1922.