Cypriot Descent Does Not Get You a Residence Permit - It Gets You the Passport Instead
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Nicaragua on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
172 exceptions recorded across 63 countries · none match Nicaragua to Cyprus · Residency through ancestry
There is no ancestry category in Cypriot residence law. Regulation 5 of the Aliens and Immigration Regulations lists six kinds of person who may be granted an immigration permit - a self-employed farmer, a miner, a tradesman, a professional, an employee with an offer, and a person of secured annual income - and descent is not among them; Regulation 9 lists nine kinds of temporary entry permit and descent is not among those either. What Cyprus has instead is a route that skips residence altogether. Article 109(3) of the Civil Registry Law entitles a person born on or after 16 August 1960 who is descended from someone who became a British subject under the Cyprus (Annexation) Orders in Council 1914 to 1943, or who was born in Cyprus between 5 November 1914 and 16 August 1960 while his parents were ordinarily resident there, to be registered as a citizen of the Republic on application and an oath of allegiance - with no residence requirement at all. Article 110(1) is a narrower version for a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or of a Commonwealth country who is a person of Cypriot origin, and that one does ask for twelve months' ordinary residence, or such shorter period as the Minister may accept. And where descent falls short of either, article 111Β(6) lets the Council of Ministers count residence abroad before 16 August 1960, or residence or government service in the former Colony of Cyprus, as if it had been residence in the Republic.
At a glance
- Residence permit by descent
- None in Regulation 5 of the Aliens and Immigration Regulations, whose six categories name no ancestry
Regulation 5 and Regulation 9 were read in full; the nine kinds of temporary entry permit in Regulation 9 do not include one for descent either.
- Citizenship by descent instead
- Registration under article 109(3) of the Civil Registry Law, with no residence requirement
The applicant must be an adult of full capacity and take the oath of allegiance in the form of the Second Schedule to that Law.
- The ancestor's qualifying date
- Birth in Cyprus between 5 November 1914 and 16 August 1960, with parents ordinarily resident there
Article 109(3)(β). The alternative in 109(3)(α) is an ancestor who became a British subject under the Cyprus (Annexation) Orders in Council 1914 to 1943.
- Residence for the Commonwealth route
- Twelve months, or such shorter period as the Minister accepts
Article 110(1)(α) of the Civil Registry Law, which also requires good character and an intention to go on residing in the Republic.
- Person of Cypriot origin
- Born in Cyprus while the parents were ordinarily resident there, and anyone descended from such a person
The definition in article 110(1) of the Civil Registry Law, which article 111Β(6) then borrows for naturalisation.
- Credit for pre-independence years
- Residence abroad, or residence or government service in the former Colony of Cyprus, before 16 August 1960
Article 111Β(6)(α) and (β) of the Civil Registry Law, at the discretion of the Council of Ministers, towards the seven-year naturalisation period.
Requirements
- Descent from a person who became a British subject under the Cyprus (Annexation) Orders in Council 1914 to 1943, or who was born in Cyprus between 5 November 1914 and 16 August 1960 with parents ordinarily resident there
- Being an adult of full capacity, and taking the oath of allegiance in the form of the Second Schedule
- For the registration route in article 110(1): citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies or of a Commonwealth country, and ordinary residence in Cyprus for twelve months
Country-level policy
The Office of the Law Commissioner prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes and the Republic serves them as PDFs from gov.cy. The edition of the Aliens and Immigration Law, Cap. 105, is dated August 2024 and carries the amendments down to Law 111(I) of 2024. Its own legal notice then withdraws most of what a reader would take it to be: the edition does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term, because the sections were not renumbered and it was never approved by the House of Representatives; it is published for practical convenience and does not replace the text of the laws it brings together; and only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette are authentic. The English edition of the free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 says the same thing in English, and adds that it is a translation. What fills the gap is a commercial service: CyLaw, run by the Cyprus Bar Association, publishes consolidated texts that are materially more current than the state's own - its Income Tax Law carries the rate bands that apply from tax year 2026, where the Tax Department's own PDF of the same Act still prints the bands of 2008. The Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its readers to CyLaw for the consolidated text of its own founding Act rather than to anything the state publishes.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Nicaragua
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«5. Εις ουδένα χορηγείται άδεια μεταναστεύσεως πλήν αν ουτος ανήκει εις μίαν των ακολούθων κατηγοριών»Our translation - not official
5. No immigration permit shall be granted to anyone unless he belongs to one of the following categories
The closed list. This is the text the absence of an ancestry route is recorded from.
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The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
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«9.-(1) Άδεια εισόδου εκδιδομένη εις αλλοδαπόν παρέχουσα εις αυτόν δικαίωμα εισόδου και παραμονής προσωρινώς εν τη Δημοκρατία είναι μία εκ των ακολούθων ειδών»Our translation - not official
9.-(1) An entry permit issued to an alien giving him the right to enter and stay temporarily in the Republic is one of the following kinds
The other closed list: transit, airport transit, employment, independent profession, pupil, temporary student, student, visitor and special permit. None of them is for descent.
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The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
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«(3) Πρόσωπο που γεννήθηκε κατά ή μετά τη 16η Αυγούστου 1960 και κατάγεται από πρόσωπο το οποίο- (α) Κατέστη Βρετανός υπήκοος με βάση τα περί Προσαρτήσεως της Κύπρου Διατάγματα εν Συμβουλίω του 1914 μέχρι 1943· ή (β) γεννήθηκε στην Κύπρο μεταξύ της 5ης Νοεμβρίου 1914 και της 16ης Αυγούστου 1960, καθ όν χρόνον οι γονείς του διέμεναν συνήθως στην Κύπρο, δικαιούται εφόσον είναι ενήλικας και πλήρους ικανότητας και υποβάλει αίτηση στον Υπουργό κατά τον καθορισμένο τρόπο και αφού δώσει επίσημη διαβεβαίωση πίστης στη Δημοκρατία, σύμφωνα με τον τύπο που εκτίθεται στο Δεύτερο Πίνακα, να εγγραφεί ως πολίτης της Δημοκρατίας.»Our translation - not official
(3) A person born on or after 16 August 1960 who is descended from a person who - (a) Became a British subject under the Cyprus (Annexation) Orders in Council 1914 to 1943; or (b) was born in Cyprus between 5 November 1914 and 16 August 1960, at a time when his parents were ordinarily resident in Cyprus, is entitled, provided he is an adult of full capacity and submits an application to the Minister in the prescribed manner and after taking the formal oath of allegiance to the Republic in the form set out in the Second Schedule, to be registered as a citizen of the Republic.
The whole of the descent route, and it asks for no residence. The provision stands as amended by Laws 16(I)/2015 and 168(I)/2017.
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The legal-information service of the Cyprus Bar Association at https://www.cylaw.org/, and in practice the only place a consolidated Cypriot statute can be read. Each Act has an address of the form /nomoi/enop/non-ind/<year>_<part>_<number>/full.html - the Income Tax Law 118(I)/2002 at /2002_1_118/full.html, the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002 at /2002_1_141/full.html, the General Healthcare System Law 89(I)/2001 at /2001_1_89/full.html, the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 at /2001_1_94/full.html, the research-and-studies Law 7(I)/2019 at /2019_1_7/full.html, the payment accounts Law 64(I)/2017 at /2017_1_64/full.html. Every page opens with an Ιστορικό Τροποποιήσεων listing each amending Act in order, and each provision is followed by the Acts that made it, so the amendment chain is readable rather than inferred. The consolidations are materially more current than the state's own: the Income Tax Law here carries amendments to 67(I)/2026 where the Tax Department's PDF stops at 219(I)/2025. The pages are served in a non-Unicode encoding that a plain client renders as mojibake; the project's fetcher handles it and the stored text is clean Greek.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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«110.—(1) Τηρουμένων των διατάξεων του εδαφίου (4), πολίτης του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου και Αποικιών ή χώρας της Κοινοπολιτείας, ο οποίος είναι πρόσωπο Κυπριακής καταγωγής, ενήλικο και πλήρους ικανότητας, μπορεί, όταν υποβάλει σχετική αίτηση στον Υπουργό κατά τον καθορισμένο τρόπο και όταν δώσει επίσημη διαβεβαίωση πίστεως στη Δημοκρατία κατά τον καθορισμένο τρόπο που εκτίθεται στο Δεύτερο Πίνακα του παρόντος Νόμου, να εγγραφεί ως πολίτης της Δημοκρατίας, εάν το πρόσωπο αυτό ικανοποιεί τον Υπουργό ότι-»The Commonwealth route, which does require twelve months' ordinary residence or such shorter period as the Minister may accept in the special circumstances of a case.
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The legal-information service of the Cyprus Bar Association at https://www.cylaw.org/, and in practice the only place a consolidated Cypriot statute can be read. Each Act has an address of the form /nomoi/enop/non-ind/<year>_<part>_<number>/full.html - the Income Tax Law 118(I)/2002 at /2002_1_118/full.html, the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002 at /2002_1_141/full.html, the General Healthcare System Law 89(I)/2001 at /2001_1_89/full.html, the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 at /2001_1_94/full.html, the research-and-studies Law 7(I)/2019 at /2019_1_7/full.html, the payment accounts Law 64(I)/2017 at /2017_1_64/full.html. Every page opens with an Ιστορικό Τροποποιήσεων listing each amending Act in order, and each provision is followed by the Acts that made it, so the amendment chain is readable rather than inferred. The consolidations are materially more current than the state's own: the Income Tax Law here carries amendments to 67(I)/2026 where the Tax Department's PDF stops at 219(I)/2025. The pages are served in a non-Unicode encoding that a plain client renders as mojibake; the project's fetcher handles it and the stored text is clean Greek.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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««πρόσωπο κυπριακής καταγωγής» σημαίνει πρόσωπο που γεννήθηκε στην Κύπρο κατά το χρόνο που οι γονείς του διέμεναν συνήθως στην Κύπρο και περιλαμβάνει κάθε πρόσωπο που κατάγεται από τέτοια πρόσωπα·»Our translation - not official
'person of Cypriot origin' means a person born in Cyprus at a time when his parents were ordinarily resident in Cyprus and includes every person descended from such persons;
The definition that both article 110(1) and article 111Β(6) run on.
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The legal-information service of the Cyprus Bar Association at https://www.cylaw.org/, and in practice the only place a consolidated Cypriot statute can be read. Each Act has an address of the form /nomoi/enop/non-ind/<year>_<part>_<number>/full.html - the Income Tax Law 118(I)/2002 at /2002_1_118/full.html, the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002 at /2002_1_141/full.html, the General Healthcare System Law 89(I)/2001 at /2001_1_89/full.html, the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 at /2001_1_94/full.html, the research-and-studies Law 7(I)/2019 at /2019_1_7/full.html, the payment accounts Law 64(I)/2017 at /2017_1_64/full.html. Every page opens with an Ιστορικό Τροποποιήσεων listing each amending Act in order, and each provision is followed by the Acts that made it, so the amendment chain is readable rather than inferred. The consolidations are materially more current than the state's own: the Income Tax Law here carries amendments to 67(I)/2026 where the Tax Department's PDF stops at 219(I)/2025. The pages are served in a non-Unicode encoding that a plain client renders as mojibake; the project's fetcher handles it and the stored text is clean Greek.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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«(6) Το Υπουργικό Συμβούλιο δύναται, εάν το κρίνει ορθό υπό τις ειδικές περιστάσεις της εκάστοτε συγκεκριμένης περίπτωσης- (α) να επιτρέψει, σε περίπτωση προσώπου κυπριακής καταγωγής, όπως διαμονή σε ξένη χώρα πριν από τις 16 Αυγούστου 1960 λογισθεί, για τους σκοπούς της παραγράφου (β) του εδαφίου (1), ως εάν ήταν διαμονή στη Δημοκρατία: Νοείται ότι, για τους σκοπούς της παρούσας παραγράφου, “πρόσωπο κυπριακής καταγωγής” έχει την έννοια που αποδίδεται στον όρο αυτό στο εδάφιο (1) του άρθρου 110· (β) να επιτρέψει όπως διαμονή στην πρώην Αποικία της Κύπρου ή υπηρεσία στην Κυβέρνησή της πριν από τις 16 Αυγούστου 1960 λογισθεί, για τους σκοπούς της παραγράφου (β) του εδαφίου (1), ως εάν ήταν διαμονή στη Δημοκρατία ή υπηρεσία σε αυτή· (γ) να επιτρέψει όπως πολιτογραφηθεί πρόσωπο κυπριακής καταγωγής το οποίο αποκήρυξε την κυπριακή υπηκοότητα, ανεξάρτητα από τον χρόνο διαμονής που προβλέπεται στο εδάφιο (1):»The three discretions: counting residence abroad before independence, counting residence or service in the former Colony, and naturalising a person of Cypriot origin who renounced Cypriot nationality without regard to the residence period.
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The legal-information service of the Cyprus Bar Association at https://www.cylaw.org/, and in practice the only place a consolidated Cypriot statute can be read. Each Act has an address of the form /nomoi/enop/non-ind/<year>_<part>_<number>/full.html - the Income Tax Law 118(I)/2002 at /2002_1_118/full.html, the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002 at /2002_1_141/full.html, the General Healthcare System Law 89(I)/2001 at /2001_1_89/full.html, the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 at /2001_1_94/full.html, the research-and-studies Law 7(I)/2019 at /2019_1_7/full.html, the payment accounts Law 64(I)/2017 at /2017_1_64/full.html. Every page opens with an Ιστορικό Τροποποιήσεων listing each amending Act in order, and each provision is followed by the Acts that made it, so the amendment chain is readable rather than inferred. The consolidations are materially more current than the state's own: the Income Tax Law here carries amendments to 67(I)/2026 where the Tax Department's PDF stops at 219(I)/2025. The pages are served in a non-Unicode encoding that a plain client renders as mojibake; the project's fetcher handles it and the stored text is clean Greek.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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Practical notes
The absence of a residence route by descent is recorded from two closed lists read in full - Regulation 5 and Regulation 9 of the Aliens and Immigration Regulations - and not from a failure to find one. Cap. 105 itself was searched for a descent provision and none was found in its titles on long-term residence, family reunification, students, researchers, seasonal work, intra-corporate transfer, the Blue Card or the single permit.
Article 109(1) and (2) are the ordinary rules of citizenship at birth for a child of a citizen, born in Cyprus or abroad, and they are a different question from ancestry two generations back.
A person registered as a citizen under article 110 cannot pass the right of registration on to a child who is not the child of the spouse, nor to a later foreign spouse: the last proviso to article 110(2) says so.
- consolidatesΟι περί Αλλοδαπών και Μεταναστεύσεως Κανονισμοί του 1972 μέχρι 2013, Ενοποίηση στην Ελληνική
Γραφείο Επιτρόπου Νομοθεσίας (Office of the Law Commissioner) · consolidated to 2017
Known to be out of date. The edition is of December 2017 and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013. It still names the Minister as the authority that grants immigration permits, where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection.
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The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
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- consolidatesΟ Περί Αρχείου Πληθυσμού Νόμος του 2002 (141(I)/2002), ενοποιημένο κείμενο
CyLaw, Παγκύπριος Δικηγορικός Σύλλογος (Cyprus Bar Association)
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The legal-information service of the Cyprus Bar Association at https://www.cylaw.org/, and in practice the only place a consolidated Cypriot statute can be read. Each Act has an address of the form /nomoi/enop/non-ind/<year>_<part>_<number>/full.html - the Income Tax Law 118(I)/2002 at /2002_1_118/full.html, the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002 at /2002_1_141/full.html, the General Healthcare System Law 89(I)/2001 at /2001_1_89/full.html, the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 at /2001_1_94/full.html, the research-and-studies Law 7(I)/2019 at /2019_1_7/full.html, the payment accounts Law 64(I)/2017 at /2017_1_64/full.html. Every page opens with an Ιστορικό Τροποποιήσεων listing each amending Act in order, and each provision is followed by the Acts that made it, so the amendment chain is readable rather than inferred. The consolidations are materially more current than the state's own: the Income Tax Law here carries amendments to 67(I)/2026 where the Tax Department's PDF stops at 219(I)/2025. The pages are served in a non-Unicode encoding that a plain client renders as mojibake; the project's fetcher handles it and the stored text is clean Greek.
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Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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