Explanatory Statement
Statutory Rules No. 88 of 1987
Australian Citizenship Regulations (Amendment)
issued by the authority of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs
Section 53 of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 (the Act), so far as is relevant, provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The amendment inserts a new provision into Regulation 12 of Statutory Rules 1984 No. 351. An authorized officer re-registering a person as an Australian citizen by descent where the birth of that person has been legitimated by the subsequent marriage of his or her parents shall not enter the person’s name in the register unless:
(a) the applicant has returned to the authorized officer any copy of, or extract from, the original entry in the register relating to the person in their possession; or
(b) the authorized officer is satisfied that any such copy or extract previously issued has been lost or destroyed.
The amendment came into operation on 1 June 1987.