National Registration Regulations, 1977, as amended
SECOND SCHEDULE (Sections 8 and 9)
CLASSIFICATION OF RESIDENTS AND CODES
Code abbreviation
1.
CIT
Classification
Citizen
Applicable qualifications
(l) A person who–
(a) is not an African; and
(b) is a citizen by birth, descent or registration.
(2)An indigenous African who was born in Rhodesia.
(3) An African–
(a) who was born outside Rhodesia; and
(b) whose father, or in the case of an illegitimate
person, mother, was an indigenous African; and
(c) whose birth was registered in terms of section 15
of the Births and Deaths Registration Act [Chapter 30]
or the corresponding provision of any earlier
enactment as an external birth.
2.
CN
Non-Indigenous
African Citizen
(l) An African(a) who was born in Rhodesia prior to the l2th
January, 1973; and
(b) whose father, or in the case of an illegitimate
person, mother, was not an indigenous African; and
(c) whose birth was registered in terms of the Births
and Deaths Registration Act [Chapter 30] or any
earlier enactment relating to the registration of births
and deaths in Rhodesia; and
(d) who was issued with a birth certificate by the State.
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