STATUTORY RULES 1951, No. 120.(d)
Definitions.
1. Regulation 3 of the Citizenship Regulations is amended—
(a) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1.) the following definition:—
“ ‘the Secretary’ means the Secretary to the Department of Immigration.”; and
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “regulation 11 of” and inserting in their stead the words “regulations 4A and 11 of”.
2. After regulation 4 of the Citizenship Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Protected persons.
“4A.—(1.) For the purposes of the definition of ‘protected person’ in sub-section (1.) of section 5 of the Act the following classes of persons are prescribed:—
(a) Australian protected persons; and
(b) persons who are British protected persons under the law of the United Kingdom or New Zealand.
“(2.) An Australian protected person who is a national of a foreign country may, at any time after attaining the age of twenty-one years and whilst of sound mind, make a declaration renouncing his status as an Australian protected person.
“(3.) A declaration made under the last preceding sub-regulation shall be in a form approved by the Minister.
“(4.) The person making the declaration shall forward the original declaration together with a copy thereof to the Secretary.
“(5.) The Secretary shall register the declaration and thereupon the person making the declaration shall cease to be an Australian protected person.
“(6.) The Secretary shall—
(a) retain the original declaration;
(b) certify in writing on the copy that it is a true copy and that it has been registered by him, stating the date of registration; and
(d) Made under the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948-1950 on 12th October, 1951; notified in Gazette on 15th October, 1951.
(c) on payment of the prescribed fee, forward the copy so certified to the person who made the declaration.
“(7.) In this regulation, ‘Australian protected person’ means a person who, having been born in New Guinea or Nauru, whether before or after the commencement of this regulation, is not a British subject and has not, in accordance with this regulation, renounced his status as, and ceased to be, an Australian protected person.”.
Second Schedule.
3. The Second Schedule to the Citizenship Regulations is amended by omitting the words “For the grant of a certificate of naturalization to a person not of full age or to the wife or widow of an Australian citizen, not being a person referred to in the first paragraph of this Schedule, or to a person who, in the opinion of the Minister, is in indigent circumstances” and inserting in their stead the words “For the grant of a certificate of naturalization to a person not of full age or to the wife or widow of an Australian citizen, not being a person referred to in the first paragraph of this Schedule, or to a person who, in the opinion of the Minister or an authorized officer, is in indigent circumstances”.