Australian Citizenship Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 3061

 

Australian Citizenship Regulations2

(Amendment)

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

Dated 22 October 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. J. Hurford

Minister of State for Immigration

and Ethnic Affairs

 

Certificate of Australian citizenship

1. Regulation 10 of the Australian Citizenship Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (1) and (2) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“(1) A certificate of Australian citizenship granted under section 13 of the Act shall be in accordance with Form 6.”.

Second Schedule

2. The Second Schedule to the Australian Citizenship Regulations is amended by omitting Forms 6 and 7 and substituting the following form:

(S.R. 315/86) Cat. No.  14/17.10.1986

FORM 6 Sub-regulation 10 (1)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

CERTIFICATE OF AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP

(Here insert the full name of the applicant)

having applied for a certificate of Australian citizenship, and having satisfied the conditions prescribed by the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 for the grant of such a certificate,

I, the Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, hereby grant this certificate of Australian citizenship to the abovenamed applicant who shall be an Australian citizen on and after

Issued by authority of the Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. (See Note 1 below)

(Signature or printed or stamped signature of the Minister)

MINISTER OF STATE FOR IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC AFFAIRS

(Signature of the presenter (optional)—see Note 2 below)

No. (here insert the applicant’s citizenship identity number)

(Office of the presenter—see Note 3 below)

CHILDREN INCLUDED IN CERTIFICATE

The names of the following children who have not attained the age of 16 years and of whom the grantee of this certificate is a responsible parent have been included in this certificate:

NAME OF CHILD  DATE OF BIRTH

(Statement where no children are included—see Note 4 below)

(Signature or printed or stamped

signature of the Minister)

MINISTER OF STATE FOR

IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC

AFFAIRS

 

FORM 6—continued

NOTES

1. Where the certificate is issued by the Minister substitute the following:

“Issued by the Minister of State

for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs”.

2. If desired, the person (in the above form and in these notes referred to as “the presenter”) who performs the function of administering the oath or affirmation of allegiance to the applicant (in the above form and in these notes referred to as “the prescribed function”) may sign his or her signature where indicated above.

3. If the presenter signs his or her signature as referred to in Note 2 above following performance of the prescribed function and the presenter performed that function by virtue of an office held by him or her, the presenter shall set out that office where indicated above (e.g., “President, Shire of . . .”).

4. Where no children are included in the certificate insert the following statement where indicated above:

“THERE ARE NO CHILDREN INCLUDED IN THIS CERTIFICATE”

Use of repealed forms

3. Notwithstanding the amendments of the Australian Citizenship Regulations effected by these Regulations, a certificate of Australian citizenship in accordance with Form 6 or 7 in the Second Schedule to the Australian Citizenship Regulations as in force immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, as the case requires, that had been granted to a person before that commencement but had not been issued to that person before that commencement may be issued to that person at any time up to the expiration of 31 January 1987.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 October 1986.

2. Statutory Rules 1960 No. 62 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1986 No. 209 and see also Statutory Rules 1986 Nos. 209, 210 and 223.

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