マレーシア・ニュース

国外追放される赤ん坊

キャメロン・ハイランド：内政省大臣のタン・チャイ・ホ氏は国民登録管理局に登録していない夫婦の間で生まれる子供は非嫡子であり、マレーシアの市民として認められないと話した。今回問題となっているのは、マレーシア人の男性と外国人の女性の夫婦の間に子供が出来たケースだが、実はこの夫婦、結婚証明書を持っていない非合法な夫婦であることが判明し、子供は母親の母国で養子にならざるを得ないことがわかた。去年だけでも内政省の調べでは15ケースの夫婦がお金を出して偽の結婚証明書を買っているということだ。親が非合法な夫婦である場合、子供の出生証明書の市民権の欄に非嫡子と書かれてしまうとタン氏は話した。子供の人生は出産の時がある意味1番大事であり、合法的な結婚は幸せな家庭を築くための第一歩なのではないかとタン氏は語った。

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[ 2月8日　23：58　MCS]

ニュース・ソース

Babies face deportation

CAMERON HIGHLANDS: Babies born to foreign wives of Malaysian men whose marriages are not legal may be deported to the mother’s country of origin.

Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Tan Chai Ho said children born to couples whose marriages were not registered with the National Registration Department were considered illegitimate and would not be granted Malaysian citizenship.

“The parents may have to resort to adopting the baby to keep it,” he said yesterday.

Last year, the department came across 15 cases of Malaysians and their foreign “wives” being duped into paying thousands of ringgit for fake marriage certificates.

According to the Federal Constitution, any newborn with a Malaysian parent would be granted automatic citizenship provided the parents were legally married.

He added that a child’s citizenship status would always follow that of its mother if it was considered to be born out of wedlock.

“A birth certificate will still be issued in the child’s name but in the citizenship column, the words ‘Section 13’ (of the National Registration Act 1959) referring to anak luar nikah (illegitimate child), will be written,” he explained.

He noted that in the past two years, some 13,000 Malaysians had married foreign women, especially those from Vietnam, China and the Philippines.

“Many of these couples only realised their marriages were not legal when they tried to register the births of their babies,” he said.

Tan added that the department was investigating if matchmaking agencies were part of a syndicate which specialised in issuing forged marriage certificates.

He said a marriage involving a foreigner would only be considered legal if witnessed by a registrar of marriages.

MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Michael Chong said many of the complainants who had approached him about problems regarding their marriages could not give substantial proof that they were legally married.

.<8-2-2007 THE STAR>