STATUTORY RULES

1969 No. 72

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP ACT 1948-1967.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948-1967.

Dated this twelfth day of May, 1969.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Sgd. B. M. Snedden

Minister of State for Immigration.

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Amendments of the Citizenship Regulations †

Other prescribed matters for the purpose of section 36 of the Act.

1. Regulation 11 of the Citizenship Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1.);

(b) by omitting paragraph (g) of that sub-regulation and inserting in its stead the following paragraphs:—

“(g) the applicant’s marital status;

(ga) if the applicant is married—

(i) the date and place of the marriage and the name and place and date of birth of the applicant’s spouse;

(ii) if the applicant’s spouse is resident in Australia—the address of the spouse and details of the spouse’s arrival in Australia; and

(iii) if a certificate of naturalization as an Australian citizen has been granted to the spouse—particulars of the certificate;

(gb) if the applicant’s marriage has been dissolved or annulled— the date on which, place at which and manner in which it was dissolved or annulled; and”;

(c) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(a) the place and date of birth of each of the applicant’s parents and, in respect of a parent who is a naturalized Australian citizen, particulars of the certificate of naturalization granted to the parent;”;

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 22 May 1969.

† Statutory Rules 1960, No. 62 as amended by Statutory Rules 1961, No. 120; 1964, No. 1; 1965, Nos. 8 and 146; 1967, No. 149 and 1968, No. 129.

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(d) by omitting paragraph (c) of that sub-regulation and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(c) if the applicant is a woman who acquired British nationality by marriage—the name and place and date of birth of her husband and, if her husband is a naturalized Australian citizen, particulars of the certificate of naturalization granted to him; and”; and

(e) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3.) the words “and their nationality at the date of his birth”.

Second Schedule.

2. The Second Schedule to the Citizenship Regulations is amended by omitting from Forms E, G and H the words—

“Nationality and/or Citizenship (Prior to Grant of this Certificate)”.

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