Australian Citizenship Regulations (Amendment)

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1978 No. 272

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT 1948*

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 this fourteenth day of December 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs

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AMENDMENTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP REGULATIONS†

Interpretation

1. Regulation 3 of the Australian Citizenship Regulations is amended by inserting “ and Ethnic Affairs ” after “ Immigration ” in the definition of “ authorized officer ” in sub-regulation (1).

Re-registration of births of legitimated persons Registration of declarations

2. Regulation 7a of the Australian Citizenship Regulations is amended by inserting “ and Ethnic Affairs ” after “ Immigration ” in the definition of “ prescribed officer ” in sub-regulation (3).

3. Regulation 17 of the Australian Citizenship Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (2) “ and Ethnic Affairs ” after “ Immigration ”.

Certified copies of declarations

4. Regulation 20 of the Australian Citizenship Regulations is amended by inserting “ and Ethnic Affairs ” after “ Immigration ”.

Second Schedule

5. The Second Schedule to the Australian Citizenship Regulations is amended by inserting in Forms 6, 7 and 8 “ and Ethnic Affairs ” after “ Immigration ” (wherever occurring).

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 December 1978.

† 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; 1970, Nos. 9 and 189; 1973, Nos. 29 and 196; 1975, No. 181; and 1967, No. 269.

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