## CONSTITUTION 8

### CONSTITUTION 8 — Rights of citizenship of certain persons of Indian origin residing outside India
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> 8. Rights of citizenship of certain persons of Indian origin residing
outside India.-Notwithstanding anything in article 5, any person who or either
of whose parents or any of whose grand-parents was born in India as defined in
the Government of India Act, 1935 (as originally enacted), and who is ordinarily
residing in any country outside India as so defined shall be deemed to be a citizen
of India if he has been registered as a citizen of India by the diplomatic or
consular representative of India in the country where he is for the time being
residing on an application made by him therefor to such diplomatic or consular
representative, whether before or after the commencement of this Constitution,
in the form and manner prescribed by the Government of the Dominion of India
or the Government of India.