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Bulgaria: Amendments to the Regulation Implementing the Law on Passports*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2017

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Legislation and Regulations
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1984

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Footnotes

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[The English translation of the Amendments , at I.L.M. page 445, and the Introductory Note were prepared for International Legal Materials by Dr.Ivan Sipkov, Chief, European Law Division, Law Library, Library of Congress.]

References

1/ Regulation Amending and Supplementing the Regulation Implementing the Law on Passports, Durzhaven Vestnik [official law gazette of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, herein after DV], No. 50, June 28, 1983. For the full English text, see Appendix. The Law on Passports was published in DV, No. 92, November 28, 1969; and the Regulation Implementing the Law on Passports i n DV, No. 92, November 20, 1973.

2/ On September 9, 1944, the communist government took over political power in Bulgaria.

3/ Zemedelsko Zname (Sofia) , newspaper, February 12, 1984.

4/ Law on Bulgarian Citizenship of October 8, 1968, DV No. 79, October 11, 1968; amended by DV No. 36, May 8, 1979. For an English text consult 8 International Legal Materials 1165 (November 1969), translated by Ivan Sipkov.

5/ Gozev, Vassil, “Changes in the Passport Regime for Bulgarian Citizens Who Permanently Live Abroad,” IT Rodoliubie (Sofia), Journal of the Committee for Bulgarians Abroad, No. 11, 1983, p. 3.Google Scholar

6/ 26 UST 687; TIAS 8067.

7/ 43 Stat 1759; 25 LNTS 238.

8/ For a discussion of the use of special bilateral conventions for the settlement of questions of existing and possible future cases of dual nationality and allegiance see Sipkov, Ivan, “Settlement of Dual Nationality in European Communist Countries,” 56 American Journal of International Law 1010 (October 1962).Google Scholar

9/ Translator's note: The Bulgarian term “zadgranichen pasport” is translated here as “passport,” a travel and identification document used abroad. It is distinguished from the term “lichen pasport,” a personal identification document used within the country.