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The time-limit for filing declarations of option shall be one year from the date of the entry into force of this Convention.

Declarations of option may be filed only by persons of full age. For the purpose of this Convention, "persons of full age" means persons who have attained the age of eighteen years or persons under the age of eighteen years who are married.

1. Persons under full age shall follow the citizenship of their parents, where both parents, in accordance with this Convention, have the same citizenship.

2. Where one parent has or chooses the citizenship of one Contracting Party and the other the citizenship of the other Contracting Party, the citizenship of their children under full age who have dual citizenship shall be determined by agreement between the parents. In the absence of such agreement, the children shall retain the citizenship of the Contracting Party in whose territory they are resident.

Children, one of whose parents is resident in the territory of one Contracting Party and the other in the territory of the other Contracting Party, shall retain the citizenship of the parent in whose custody they are, unless the parents agree otherwise.

3. Children under full age whose parents are dead or the whereabouts of whose parents are unknown shall retain the citizenship of the Contracting Party in whose territory they are resident on the date of the expiry of a period of one year from the date of the entry into force of this Convention.

4. Persons under full age who have attained the age of fourteen years may, by filing a declaration, opt for the citizenship of the other Contracting Party, if they wish to prevent the application to them of the preceding provisions of this article.

Each Contracting Party shall notify the other Contracting Party, not later than six months after the expiry of the time-limit specified in article 2 of this Convention, of such declarations of option for its citizenship as it has received, indicating which declarations have been accepted.

Persons whose declarations are not accepted shall be regarded as having filed no declaration and shall be treated in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph of article 6 of this Convention.

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