Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02993:schedule:3:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02993
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 3 (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 48145–50659

Schedule 3
37. Schedule 3 to the Principal Act is repealed.

Formal amendments
38. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.

Application
39. (1) In this section—
    "amended Act" means the Principal Act as amended by this Act;
    "commencing day" means the twenty-eighth day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
(2) The amendments made by section 9 apply to a person born after the commencing day.
(3) Section 10a of the amended Act applies to a person adopted after the commencing day.
(4) Section 10b of the amended Act applies to a person born either before or after the commencing day.
(5) Where the name of a person who was born outside Australia on or after 26 January 1949 is registered at an Australian consulate for the purposes of section 10b of the amended Act within 2 years after the commencing day—
    (a) paragraph 10b (1) (a) of the amended Act has effect as if "within 18 years of his birth" were omitted; and
    (b) sub-sub-paragraph 10b (1) (b) (ii) (b) of the amended Act does not apply in relation to the acquisition of Australian citizenship by the person.
(6) Sections 13 and 14 of the amended Act apply to persons who made application under section 13 or 14 of the Principal Act, being persons whose applications had not been granted or refused before the commencing day, as if those applications had been made under the corresponding provision of section 13 of the amended Act.
(7) Sub-section 13 (3) of the amended Act applies to relevant defence service, and to discharge from such service, either before or after the commencing day.
(8) Paragraph 13 (11) (a) of the amended Act, in so far as it relates to an offence with which a person has been charged, applies to an offence with which a person has been charged either before or after the commencing day.
(9) Sub-section 13 (11) of the amended Act, in so far as it relates to a period during which a person has been confined in a prison or psychiatric institution, applies to a person so confined either before or after the commencing day.
(10) Sub-section 15 (3) of the amended Act has effect, on and after the commencing day, in relation to a person granted a certificate of Australian citizenship before that day under sub-section 14 (8) of the Principal Act by virtue of being the wife or husband of a person referred to in paragraph 14 (8) (d) of that Act, but who is not, on the commencing day, an Australian citizen by virtue of section 15 of the Principal Act, as if the reference in