STATUTORY RULES

1970 No. 189

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REGULATION UNDER THE CITIZENSHIP ACT 1948-1969.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Citizenship Act 1948-1969.

Dated this seventh day of December, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Sgd. Phillip Lynch

Minister of State for Immigration.

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Amendment of the Citizenship Regulations†

After regulation 5 of the Citizenship Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Countries to which section 7 of the Act applies.

“5a. Each of the following countries is declared to be a country within the Commonwealth of Nations to which section 7 of the Act applies:—

Barbados

Republic of Botswana

Republic of Cyprus

Fiji

The Gambia

Guyana

Jamaica

Republic of Kenya

Kingdom of Lesotho

Republic of Malawi

Malaysia

Malta

Mauritius

Republic of Nauru

Federal Republic of Nigeria

Sierra Leone

Republic of Singapore

Southern Rhodesia

United Republic of Tanzania

Kingdom of Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

Independent State of Western Samoa

Republic of Zambia.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 10 Dec 1970.

† Statutory Rules 1960. No. 62, as amended by Statutory Rules 1961, No. 120; 1964, No. 1, 1965, Nos. 8 and 146; 1967, No. 149; 1968, No. 129; 1969, No. 72; and 1970, No. 9.

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