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INCONSTITUCIONALIDADE SUPERVENIENTE | PERDA DA NACIONALIDADE | INDEPENDÊNCIA DOS TERRITÓRIOS ULTRAMARINOS | PRINCÍPIO DA IGUALDADE

 

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 319/89, 14.03.1989

 

JURISDICTION: Constitutional

CASE: 107/84

SUBJECT: Judicial review

RAPPORTEUR: Cardoso da Costa

RULING: The Constitutional Court decides not to take notice of the request to review the constitutionality of the norms in Articles 1(1)(e) and 4 of Decree-Law no. 308-A/75, of 24 June 1975, due to the intervening uselessness of the request.

DOMESTIC LAW:

Portuguese Constitution [Articles 5(4), 13(2), 26(3), 281(1), 282, 293, 297(1)]

1933 Constitution (Article 5)

Constitutional Court Act [Articles 54, 55(3)]

Civil Code [Article 12(2)]

Law no. 3/74, of 19 May 1974 [Article 1(1)]

Law no. 113/88, of 29 December 1988

Decree-Law no. 308-A/75, of 24 June 1975 (Articles 1, 2, 4, 5)

Decree no. 206/75, of 17 April 1975

Parliament Resolution no. 25/87, of 14 December 1987

Presidential Decree no. 38-A/87, of 14 December 1987

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 261/86, 23.07.1986

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 2/84, 11.01.1984

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 20/84, 22.02.1984

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 82/84, 18.07.1984

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 238/88, 25.10.1988

INTERNATIONAL LAW:

Treaty between Portugal and India (1975)

Joint Declaration Portugal-China on Macau (1987)

FOREIGN LAW: n.a.

KEYWORDS: Intervening unconstitutionality; loss of nationality; independence of overseas territories; principle of equality; citizenship; nationality; respect for the citizens’ will; natives of the former state of India; nationals of the newly independent countries; option principle; discriminatory; national citizenship; India; opportunity to opt for Portuguese nationality; national community; personal substrate or base for the new states; pre-constitutional norms; “reacquisition” of Portuguese nationality; former Portuguese citizens; facts prior to the 1976 Constitution; territories of origin; application of law in time; African overseas territories; Macau; Timor Leste; eventual integration in the People’s Republic of China; territory under Portuguese administration; status adequate to its special situation; recognition of Timor Leste’s independence; merely academic interest; procedurally useless decision; declarations to keep Portuguese nationality; legal security; equity; public interest of exceptional relevance

COMENTÁRIO: A adicionar em breve.

REFERENCES IN THE LITERATURE:

CANOTILHO, J.J. Gomes, e MOREIRA, Vital, Constituição da República Portuguesa Anotada [Annotation to the Portuguese Constitution], vol. I, 4.ª ed. revista, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2007.

MIRANDA, Jorge, e MEDEIROS, Rui, Constituição Portuguesa Anotada [Annotation to the Portuguese Constitution], tomo I, 2.ª ed., Coimbra, Wolters Kluwer/Coimbra Editora, 2010.

 

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