Editing Somaliland (section)

=== Law ===
{{Main|Law of Somaliland}}
[[File:Supreme Court of Somaliland Building.jpg|thumb|right|The Court House of the [[Supreme Court of Somaliland|Supreme Court]]]]

The judicial system is divided into district courts (which deal with matters of family law and succession, lawsuits for amounts up to 3 million [[Somaliland shilling|SLSH]], criminal cases punishable by up to 3 years' imprisonment or 3 million SL fines, and crimes committed by juveniles), regional courts (which deal with lawsuits and criminal cases not within the jurisdiction of district courts, labour and employment claims, and local government elections), regional appeals courts (which deal with all appeals from the district and regional courts), and the [[Supreme court]] (which deals with issues between courts and in government, and reviews its own decisions), which is the highest court and also functions as the Constitutional Court.<ref name="QDbwG">{{cite web|url=http://www.somalilandlaw.com/somaliland_judicial_system.html|title=Somaliland Judicial System|access-date=28 March 2016}}d</ref>

{{anchor|Citizenship}}[[Somaliland nationality law]] defines who is a Somaliland citizen,<ref name="o48bn">{{cite book | last=Manby | first=B. | title=Citizenship Law in Africa: A Comparative Study | publisher=Open Society Foundations | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-936133-29-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xKhONykaQKYC&pg=PA46 | access-date=2 August 2016 | page=46}}</ref> as well as the procedures by which one may be [[naturalised]] into Somaliland citizenship or [[renunciation of citizenship|renounce it]].<ref name="jeCoJ">{{cite web|url=http://www.somalilandlaw.com/Xeerka_Jinsiyadda.htm|title=Xeerka Jinsiyadda (Xeer Lr. 22/2002) |trans-title=Nationality Law (Regulation No. 22/2023) |website=Somaliland Law|date=31 May 2001|language=so|access-date=19 February 2018}}</ref>

The Somaliland government continues to apply the 1962 penal code of the Somali Republic. As such, homosexual acts are illegal in the territory.<ref name="ILGA">{{Cite web |last1=Itaborahy |first1=Lucas |last2=Zhu |first2=Jingshu |date=May 2014 |publisher=International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association |url=http://old.ilga.org/Statehomophobia/ILGA_SSHR_2014_Eng.pdf |title=A world survey of laws: Criminalisation, protection and recognition of same-sex love |access-date=16 June 2017 |archive-date=20 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020202330/http://old.ilga.org/Statehomophobia/ILGA_SSHR_2014_Eng.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>