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Citizenship by registration to begin on date of registration \r\n13. Citizenship by incorporation of territory \r\n14. Dual citizenship or nationality not permitted \r\n14A. Renunciation of citizenship \r\n14B. Certain persons to be citizens of Pakistan \r\n15. Persons becoming citizens to have the status of Commonwealth citizens \r\n16. Deprivation of citizenship \r\n16A. Certain persons to lose and others to retain citizenship \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nPage 2 of 10 \r\n \r\n17. Certificate of domicile \r\n18. Delegation of powers \r\n19. Cases of doubt as to citizenship \r\n20. Acquisition of Pakistan citizenship by citizens of Commonwealth countries \r\n21. Penalties \r\n22. Interpretation \r\n23. Rules \r\nSCHEDULE \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nPage 3 of 10 \r\n \r\nTHE PAKISTAN CITIZENSHIP ACT, 1951 \r\n1ACT NO. II of 1951 \r\n[13th April, 1951] \r\nAn Act to provide for Pakistan citizenship \r\nWHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for citizenship of Pakistan; \r\nIt is hereby enacted as follows:__ \r\n1. Short title and commencement.__ (1) This Act may be called the Pakistan Citizenship Act, \r\n1951. \r\n(2) It shall come into force at once. \r\n2. Definitions. In this Act__ \r\n“alien” means a person who is not a citizen of Pakistan or a Commonwealth citizen; \r\n“Indo-Pakistan sub-continent” means India as defined in th e Government of India Act, 1935 \r\n(26 Geo.5, c.2.), as originally enacted; \r\n“minor” means, notwithstanding anything in the Maj ority Act, 1875 (IX of 1875), any person \r\nwho has not completed the age of twentyone years; \r\n“prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; 2[*] \r\n2[“Commonwealth citizen” means a person who has the status of a Commonweal th citizen \r\nunder the British Nationality Act, 1948 (11 & 12, Geo.6, c.56.) \r\n“British protected person” means a person who has the status of a British protected person for \r\nthe purposes of the British Nationality Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo.c.56).] \r\n3. Citizenship at the date of commencement of this Act. At the commencement of this Act, \r\nevery person shall be deemed to be a citizen of Pakistan__ \r\n(a) who or any of whose parents or grandparents was born in the territory now \r\nincluded in Pakistan and who after the fourteenth day of August, 1947, has not \r\nbeen permanently resident in any country outside Pakistan; or \r\n(b) who or any of whose parents or grandparents was born in the territories included \r\nin India on the thirty first day of March, 1937, 2[and who, except in the case of \r\na person who was in the service of Pakistan or of any Government or \r\nAdministration in Pakistan at the commencement of this Act, has] or had his \r\n \r\n \r\n1This Act shall, during the continuance of the Defence of Pakistan Ordinance, 1971 (XXX of 1971), have effect subject to the provision of section 7 (4) \r\nof that Ordinance. \r\nIt has also been brought into force in Baluchistan with effect on and from the 13th day of April, 1951, see Gazette of Pakistan, 1952, Pt. I, p. 218; applied \r\nin the Federated Areas of Baluchistan, see ibid., 1953, Pt. I, p. 152; extended to the Leased Areas of Baluchistan by the Leased Areas (Laws) Order, 1950 \r\n(G.G.O. 3 of 1950); extended to the Khairpur State by the Khairpur (Federal Laws) (Extension) Order, 1953 (G.G.O. 5 of 1953); extended to the \r\nBaluchistan States Union by the Baluchistan States Union (Federal Laws) (Extension) Order, 1953 (G.G.O. 4 of 1953) ; extended to the State of \r\nBahawalpur by the Bahawalpur (Extension of Federal Laws) Order, 1953 (G.G.O. 11 of 1953), as amended; and also brought in to force in Gwadur with \r\neffect from the 8th September, 1958, by the Gwadur (Application for Central Laws) Ordinance, 1960 (37 of 1960), s. 2. \r\n2Omitted and subs. by Act No. V of 1952, ss. 2&3. \r\n \r\nPage 4 of 10 \r\n \r\n domicile within the meaning of Part II of the Succession Act, 1925 (XXXIX of \r\n1925), as in force at the commencement of this Act, in Pakistan or in the \r\nterritories now included in Pakistan; or \r\n(c) who is a person naturalised as a British subject in Pakistan; and who, if before \r\nthe date of the commencement of this Act he has acquired the citizenship of any \r\nforeign State, has before that date renounced the same by depositing a \r\ndeclaration in writing to that effect with an authority appointed or empowered \r\nto receive it; 1[or] \r\n1[(d) who before the commenc ement of this Act migrated to the territories now \r\nincluded in Pakistan from any territory in the Indo -Pakistan sub -continent \r\noutside those territories with the intention of residing p ermanently in those \r\nterritories] \r\n1[* * * * * * *] \r\n4. Citizenship by birth . Every person born in Pakistan after the commencement of this Act \r\nshall be a citizen of Pakistan by birth: \r\nProvided that a person shall not be such a citizen by virtue of this section if at the time of his \r\nbirth__ \r\n(a) his father possesses such immunity from suit and legal process as is accorded to \r\nan envoy of an external sovereign power accredited in Pakistan and is not a \r\ncitizen of Pakistan; or \r\n(b) his father is an enemy alien and the birth occurs in a place then under occupation \r\nby the enemy. \r\n5. Citizenship by descent. 2[(1)] Subject to the provisions of section 3 a person born after the \r\ncommencement of this Act shall be a citizen of Pakistan by descent if his 3[parent] is a citizen of \r\nPakistan at the time of his birth: \r\nProvided that if the 3[parent] of such person is a citizen of Pakistan by descent only, that person \r\nshall not be a citizen of Pakistan by virtue of this section unless__ \r\n(a) that person’s birth having occurred in a country outside Pakistan the birth is \r\nregistered at a Pakistan Consulate or Mission in that country, or where there is \r\nno Pakistan Consulate or Mission in that country 1[at the prescribed Consulate \r\nor Mission or] at a Pakistan Consulate or Mission in the country nearest to that \r\ncountry; or \r\n(b) that person’s 3[parent] is, at the time of the birth, in the service of any \r\nGovernment in Pakistan. \r\n2[(2) The substitution of word “parent”, for the word “father” by the Pakis tan Citizenship \r\n(Amendment) Ordinance, 2000 (XIII of 2000) shall always be deemed to have been so done on and \r\nfrom the commencement of this Act.] \r\n \r\n \r\n1Ins. and omitted by Act No. V of 1952, ss. 3-4. \r\n2Numbered and added by Act No. XXVII of 2026 s. 2. \r\n3Subs. by Ord. No. XIII of 2000, s. 2. \r\n \r\n \r\nPage 5 of 10 \r\n \r\n6. Citizenship by migration .__ (1) The 1[Federal Government] may, upon his obtaining a \r\ncertificate of domicile under this Act, register as a citizen of Pakistan by mig ration any person who \r\n2[after the commencement of this Act and before the first day of January, 1952, has migrated] to the \r\nterritories now included in Pakistan from any territory in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent outside those \r\nterritories, with the intention of residing permanently in those territories: \r\nProvided that the 1[Federal Government] may, by general or special order, exempt any person \r\nor class of persons from obtaining a certificate of domicile required under this sub-section. \r\n(2) Registration granted under the preceding sub -section shall include, besides the person \r\nhimself, his wife, if any, unless his marriage with her has been dissolved, an d any minor child of his \r\ndependent whether wholly or partially upon him. \r\n7. Persons migrating from the territories of Pakistan. Notwithstanding anything in sections \r\n3, 4 and 6, a person who has after the first day of March, 1947, migrated from the territories now \r\nincluded in Pakistan to the territories now included in India shall not be a citizen of Pakistan under the \r\nprovisions of these sections: \r\nProvided that nothing in this section shall apply to a person who, after having so migrated to \r\nthe territories now included in India has returned to the territories now included in Pakistan under a \r\npermit for resettlement or permanent return issued by or under the authority of any law for the time \r\nbeing in force. \r\n8. Rights of citizen ship of certain persons resident abroad. 1[(1)] The 1[Federal \r\nGovernment] may, upon application made to it in this b ehalf, register as a citizen of Pakistan any \r\nperson who, or whose father or whose father’s father, was born in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent and \r\nwho is ordinarily resident in a country outside Pakistan at the commencement of this Act, if he has, \r\nunless exempted by the 1[Federal Government] in this behalf, obtained a certificate of domicile: \r\nProvided that a certificate of domicile shall not be required in the case of any such person who \r\nis out of Pakistan under the protection of a Pakistan passport, or in the case of any such person whose \r\nfather or whose father’s father is at the commencement of this Act residing in Pakistan or becomes, \r\nbefore the aforesaid application is made, a citizen of Pakistan. \r\n1[(2) A subject of the State of Jammu and Kashmir who, be ing under the protection of a \r\nPakistan passport, is resident in the United Kingdom or such other country as the Federal Government \r\nmay, by notification in the official Gazette, specify in this behalf, shall, without prejudice to his rights \r\nand status as a subject of that State, be deemed to be, and always to have been, a citizen of Pakistan.] \r\n9. Citizenship by naturalisation. The 1[Federal Government] may, upon an application made \r\nto it in that behalf by any person who has been granted a certificate of natu ralisation under the \r\nNaturalisation Act, 1926 (VII of 1926), register that person as a citizen of Pakistan by naturalization: \r\nProvided that the 1[Federal Government] may register any person as a citizen of Pakistan \r\nwithout his having obtained a certificate of naturalisation as aforesaid. \r\n10. Married women.__ (1) Any woman who by reason of her marriage to a 2[British subject] \r\nbefore the first day of January, 1949, has acquired the status of a 2[British subject] shall, if her husband \r\nbecomes a citizen of Pakistan, be a citizen of Pakistan. \r\n \r\n \r\n1Subs., renumbered and added by Act No. XLVIII of 1973, ss. 2-3. \r\n2Subs. by Act No. V of 1952, ss. 5-6. \r\n \r\nPage 6 of 10 \r\n \r\n(2) Subject to the provisions of sub -section (1) and sub -section (4) a woman who has been \r\nmarried to a citizen of Pakistan or to a person who but for his death would have been a ci tizen of \r\nPakistan under section 3, 4 or 5 shall be entitled, on making application therefor to the 1[Federal \r\nGovernment] in the prescribed manner and, if she is an alien, on obtaining a certificate of domicile and \r\ntaking the oath of allegiance in the form set out in the Schedule to this Act, to be registered as a citizen \r\nof Pakistan whether or not she has completed twentyone years of her age and is of full capacity. \r\n(3) Subject as aforesaid, a woman who has been married to a person who, but for his death, \r\ncould have been a citizen of Pakistan under the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 6 (whether he \r\nmigrated as provided in that sub -section or is deemed under the proviso to section 7 to have so \r\nmigrated) shall be entitled as provided in sub -section (2) subject further, if she is an alien, to her \r\nobtaining the certificate and taking the oath therein mentioned. \r\n(4) A person who has ceased to be a citizen of Pakistan under section 14 or who has been \r\ndeprived of citizenship of Pakistan under this Act shall not be entitled to be registered as a citizen \r\nthereof under this section but may be so registered with the previous consent of the 1[Federal \r\nGovernment]. \r\n11. Registration of minors .__ (1) The 1[Federal Government] may, upon application to it in \r\nthis behalf made in the prescribed manner by a parent or guardian of a minor child of a citizen of \r\nPakistan, register the child as a citizen of Pakistan. \r\n(2) The 1[Federal Government] may, in such circumstances as it thinks fit, register any minor \r\nas a citizen of Pakistan. \r\n12. Citizenship by registration to begin on date of registration . Any person registered as a \r\ncitizen of Pakistan shall be such a citizen from the date of his registration. \r\n13. Citizenship by incorporation of territory. If any territory becomes a part of Pakistan the \r\n2[President] may, by order, specify the persons who shall be citizens of Pakistan by reason of their \r\nconnection with that territory; and those persons shall be citizens of Pakistan from such date and upon \r\nsuch conditions, if any, as may be specified in the order. \r\n14. Dual citizenship or nationality not permitted .__ (1) Subject to the provisions of this \r\nsection if any person is a citizen of Pakistan under the provisions of this Act, and is at the same time a \r\ncitizen or national of any other country, he shall, unless 3[* * *] he makes a declaration according to \r\nthe laws of that other country renouncing his status as citizen or national thereof, cease to be a citizen \r\nof Pakistan. \r\n3[(1A) Nothing in sub-section (1) applies to a person who has not attained twenty-one years of \r\nhis age.] \r\n(2) Nothing in 3[sub-section (1)] shall apply to any person who is a subject of an acceding State \r\nso far as concerns his being a subject of that State. \r\n4[(3) Nothing in sub -section (1) shall apply, or shall be deemed ever to have applied at any \r\nstage, to a person who, being or having at any time been, a citizen of Pakistan, is also the citizen of the \r\n \r\n1Subs. by Act No. XLVIII of 1973, s. 3. \r\n2Subs. by the Central Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1961 (P. O. No. 1 of 1961), Art. 2 and Table. \r\n3Omitted, ins. and subs. by Act No. V of 1952, s. 7. \r\n4Added by Act No. XVII of 1972, s. 2. \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nPage 7 of 10 \r\n \r\nUnited Kingdom and Colonies or of such other country as the Federal Government may, by notification \r\nin the official Gazette, specify in this behalf. \r\n(4) Nothing in sub -section (1) shall apply to a female citizen of Pakistan who is married to a \r\nperson who is not a citizen of Pakistan.] \r\n1[14A. Renunciation of citizenship. __ (1) If any citizen of Pakistan residing outside Pakistan, \r\nwho is not a minor and__ \r\n(a) is also a citizen or national of another country, or \r\n(b) has been given by the competent authority of another country any valid \r\ndocument assuring him of the grant of the citizenship or nationality of that other \r\ncountry upon renouncing his citizenship of Pakistan, \r\nmakes in the prescribed manner a declaration renouncing his citizenship of Pakistan, \r\nthe declaration shall be registe red by the prescrib ed authority, and upon such \r\nregistration that person shall cease to be a citizen of Pakistan: \r\nProvided that, if any such declaration is made during any war in which Pakistan \r\nmay be engaged, registration thereof shall be withheld until the Federal Governmen t \r\notherwise directs. \r\n(2) Where a male person ceases to be a citizen of Pakistan under sub-section (1)__ \r\n(a) every such minor child of that person as is residing outside Pakistan shall \r\nthereupon cease to be a citizen of Pakistan; \r\nProvided that any such child may, within one year of his completing the age of \r\ntwenty-one years, make a declaration that he wishes to resume the citizenship \r\nof Pakistan and shall upon the making of such declarati on become a citizen of \r\nPakistan; and \r\n(b) every such minor child of that person as is residing in Pakistan shall continue to \r\nbe a citizen of Pakistan.] \r\n2[(3) Subject to notification by the Federal Government in the official Gazette under sub -\r\nsection (3) of section 14, any person who has renounced citizenship of Pakistan under sub-section (1), \r\nmay resume citizenship of Pakistan by making a declaration in the prescribed manner and upon making \r\nof such declaration he may thereupon become a citizen of Pakistan. \r\n(4) Where declaration under sub -section (3) is made by a person, ev ery minor child of such \r\nperson whose citizenship has ceased under sub -section (2) may thereupon become a citizen of \r\nPakistan.] \r\n3[14B. Certain persons to be citizens of Pakistan. __ A person who, being a subject of the \r\nState of Jammu and Kashmir, has migrated to Pakistan with the intention of residing therein until such \r\ntime as the relationship between Pakistan and that State is finally determined shall, without prejudice \r\nto his status as such subject, be a citizen of a Pakistan.] \r\n \r\n1Ins. by Act No. XVII of 1972, s. 3. \r\n2Added by Act No. XXIII of 2025, s.2. \r\n3Ins. and shall be deemed to have been so inserted on the twentieth day of April, 1972, by Act No. XXXIX of 1973, s. 2. \r\n \r\n \r\nPage 8 of 10 \r\n \r\n15. Persons becoming citizens to have the status of Commonwealth citizens. Every person \r\nbecoming a citizen of Pakistan under this Act shall have the status of a Commonwealth citizen. \r\n16. Deprivation of citizenship.__ (1) A citizen of Pakistan shall cease to be a citizen of Pakistan \r\nif he is deprived of that citizenship by an order under the next following sub-sections. \r\n(2) Subject to the provisions of this section the 1[Federal Government] may by order deprive \r\nany suc h citizen of his citizenship if it is satisfied that he obtained his certificate of domicile or \r\ncertificate of naturalisation 2[under the Natural isation Act, 1926 ] by means of fraud, false \r\nrepresentation or the concealment of any material fact, or if his certificate of naturalization 2[under the \r\nnaturalization Act, 1926] is revoked. \r\n(3) Subject to the provisions of this section the 1[Federal Government] may by order deprive \r\nany person who is a citizen of Pakistan by naturalisation of his citizenship of Pakistan if it is satisfied \r\nthat that citizen__ \r\n(a) has shown himself by any act or speech to be disloyal or disaffected to the \r\nConstitution of Pakistan; or \r\n(b) has, during a war in which Pakistan is or has been engaged, unlawfully traded \r\nor communicated with the enemy or engaged in or associated with any business \r\nthat was to his knowledge carried on in such a manner as to assist the enemy in \r\nthat war; or \r\n(c) has within five years of being naturalised been sentenced in any country to \r\nimprisonment for a term of not less than twelve months. \r\n(4) The 1[Federal Government] may on an application being made or on its own motion by \r\norder deprive any citizen of Pakistan of his citizenship if it is satisfied that he has been ordinarily \r\nresident in a cou ntry outside Pakistan for a continuous period of seven years 2[beginning not earlier \r\nthan the commencement of this Act] and during that period has neither__ \r\n(i) been at any time in the service of any Government in Pakistan or of an \r\ninternational organisation of which Pakistan has, at any time during that period \r\nbeen a member; nor \r\n(ii) registered annually in the prescribed manner at a Pakistan Consulate or Mission \r\nor in a country where there is no Pakistan Consulate or Mission 2[at the \r\nprescribed Consulate or Mission or] at a Pakistan Consulate or Mission in a \r\ncountry nearest to the country of his residence hi s intention to retain Pakistan \r\nCitizenship. \r\n(5) The 1[Federal Government] shall not make an order depriving a person of citizenship under \r\nthis section unless it is satisfied that it is in the public interest that that person should not continue to \r\nbe a citizen of Pakistan. \r\n(6) Before making an order under this section the 1[Federal Government] shall give the person \r\nagainst whom it is proposed to make the order notice in writing informing him of the grounds on which \r\nit is proposed to make the order and calling upon him to show cause why it should not be made. \r\n \r\n1Subs. by Act No. XLVIII of 1973, s. 3. \r\n2Ins. by Act No. V of 1952, s. 8. \r\n \r\nPage 9 of 10 \r\n \r\n(7) If it is proposed to make the order on any of the grounds specified in sub -sections (2) and \r\n(3) of this section and the person against whom it is proposed to make the order applies in the \r\nprescribed manner for an inquiry, the 1[Federal Government] shall, and in any other case may, refer \r\nthe case to a c ommittee of inquiry consisting of a chairman, being a person possessing judicial \r\nexperience, appointed by the 1[Federal Government] and of such other members appointed by the \r\n1[Federal Government] as it thinks proper. \r\n2[16A. Certain persons to lose and others to retain citizenship.__ (1) All persons who, at any \r\ntime before the sixteenth day of December, 1971, were citizens of Pakistan domiciled in the territories \r\nwhich before the said day constituted the Province of East Pakistan and who__ \r\n(i) were residing in those territories on that day and are residing therein since that \r\nday voluntarily or otherwise shall cease to be citizens of Pakistan; \r\n(ii) were residing in Pakistan on that day but after that day volu ntarily migrated to \r\nthose territories shall cease to be citizens of Pakistan; \r\n(iii) were residing in Pakistan on that day and are voluntarily residing therein since \r\nthat day shall continue to be citizens of Pakistan; \r\n(iv) were residing in those territories on that day but voluntarily came to Pakistan \r\nafter that day with the approval of the Federal Government shall continue to be \r\ncitizens of Pakistan: \r\nProvided that any persons referred to in clause (i) whose repatriation to \r\nPakistan has been agreed to by the Federal Government and who have not been \r\nso repatriated before the commencement of Pakistan Citizenship (Amendment) \r\nOrdinance, 1978, shall continue to be citizens of Pakistan. \r\n(2) Any person who, at any time before the sixteenth day of December, 1971, was a citizen of \r\nPakistan domiciled in the territories which before the said day constituted the Province of East Pakistan \r\nand who, being under the protection of a Pakistan passport, was on that day, or is, residing in any \r\ncountry beyond those territories sha ll not be deemed to be a citizen of Pakistan unless, upon an \r\napplication made by him to the Federal Government in this behalf, the Federal Government has granted \r\nhim a certificate that at the date of the certificate he is a citizen of Pakistan.] \r\n17. Certificate of domicile. The 1[Federal Government] may upon an application being made \r\nto it in the prescribed manner containing the prescribed particulars grant a certificate of domicile to \r\nany person in respect of whom it is satisfied that he has ordinarily res ided in Pakistan for a period of \r\nnot less than one year immediately before the making of the application, and has acquired a domicile \r\ntherein. \r\n18. Delegation of powers . The 1[Federal Government] may, by order notified in the o fficial \r\nGazette, direct that any power conferred upon it or duty imposed on it by this Act shall, in such \r\ncircumstances, and under such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the direction, be exercised or \r\ndischarged by such authority or officer as may be specified. \r\n \r\n \r\n1Subs. by Act No. XLVIII of 1973, s. 3. \r\n2Ins. by Ordinance No. XI of 1978, s.2. \r\n \r\nPage 10 of 10 \r\n \r\n19. Cases of doubt as to citizenship .__ (1) Where a person with respect to whose citizenship \r\na doubt exists, whether on a question of law or fact, makes application in that behalf to the 1[Federal \r\nGovernment], the 1[Federal Government] may grant him a certificate that at the date of the certificate \r\nhe is a citizen of Pakistan. \r\n(2) The certificate, unless it is proved to have been obtained by fraud, false representation or \r\nconcealment of any material fact, shall be conclusive evidence of the fact recorded in it. \r\n20. Acquisition of Pakistan citize nship by citizens of Commonwealth countries . The \r\n1[Federal Government] may upon such terms and conditions as it may by general or special order \r\nspecify register a 2[Commonwealth citizen or a British protected person] as a citizen of Pakistan. \r\n21. Penalties. Any person who in order to obtain or prevent the doing of anything under the \r\nAct makes any statement or furnishes any information which is false in any material particular and \r\nwhich he knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be false, or doe s not believe to be true, shall be \r\ndeemed to have committed an offence punishable under section 177 of the Pakistan Penal Code (Act \r\nXLV of 1860). \r\n22. Interpretation.__ (1) For the purposes of this Act a person born abroad a registered ship or \r\naircraft, or abroad an unregistered ship or aircraft of the Government of any country shall be deemed \r\nto have been born in the place in which the ship or aircraft was registered or as the case may be in that \r\ncountry. \r\n(2) Any reference in this Act to the status or description of the father of a person at the time of \r\nthat person’s birth shall, in relation to a person born after the death of his father be construed as a \r\nreference to the status or description of the father at t he time of the father’s death ; and where that \r\ndeath occurred before, and the birth occurs after the commencement of this Act, the status or \r\ndescription which would have been applicable to the father had he died after the commencement of \r\nthis Act shall be deemed to be the status or description applicable to him at the time of his death. \r\n23. Rules.__ (1) The 1[Federal Government] may frame rules for carrying into effect the \r\nprovisions of this Act. \r\n(2) No rule framed under this Act shall have effect unless published in the official Gazette. \r\n__________ \r\nSCHEDULE \r\n(Form of Oath or affirmation) \r\n(Section 10) \r\n“I (name) of (address) do hereby swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance \r\nto the Constitution of Pakistan”. \r\n_______ \r\nRGN Date: 02-04-2026 \r\n \r\n1Subs. by Act No. XLVIII of 1973, s. 3. \r\n2Subs. by Act No. V of 1952, s. 9.", "passage_offset_convention": "zero-based Unicode code points and UTF8 bytes; end exclusive", "passages": [ { "passage_id": "law:pk-code-962f3dcfeb28f53e:sha256:c3ff6024dec5764d9e05e55c2bc5464566f79ebe698d1123a6c6ae63ee4a57af:chars-0-1721:4564f08fd142dfaa3437f7c764f7d1829a1114c41a60772db1d3b5698ad35977", "character_start": 0, "character_end": 1721, "utf8_byte_start": 0, "utf8_byte_end": 1725, "passage_sha256": 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