Section 14:
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
14. Passports Act – Citizenship—The applicant, a Mauritian, who had acquired French citizenship sought a new Mauritian passport. She was asked to
furnish further details in respect of her French citizenship, in view of the fact
that she may have lost her Mauritian citizenship under section 15 of the
Mauritius Citizenship Act. The applicant sought an order of mandamus
against the respondent.
HELD the respondent was acting lawfully in requesting further particulars. The fact that an applicant for a passport produces a birth certificate
evidencing birth in Mauritius does not shift on to the respondent the burden
of proving loss of Mauritian citizenship. Ransamy v Passport and Immigration
Officer (1988).