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of Australian citizenship;
         (b) the evidentiary certificate is required by the applicant for purposes in connection with the operation of a law in force in a foreign country or a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, purposes in connection with an action or proceeding before a court, tribunal or authority; or
         (c) the authorized officer is satisfied that the applicant has some other legitimate reason for requiring the evidentiary certificate."; and
    (c) by inserting in sub-section (8) ", in writing," after "authorized".
31. Sections 48, 48a and 49 of the Principal Act are repealed and the following sections are substituted:

Replacement certificates
"47a. Where the Minister proposes to amend a certificate of Australian citizenship (in this section referred to as the 'original certificate') under section 47, not being an amendment including the name of a person in, or omitting the name of a person from, the original certificate, the Minister may, in his discretion, in lieu of so amending the original certificate, upon surrender of the original certificate to him, grant and issue a further certificate of Australian citizenship (in this section referred to as the 'replacement certificate') in which that amendment has been incorporated and thereupon the replacement certificate has effect for all purposes of this Act as if it had been granted and issued at the same time as the original certificate and the original certificate had not been granted.

Surrender of certificates
"48. (1) Where an order is made under this Act depriving a person of his Australian citizenship—
    (a) if that person is an Australian citizen by virtue of a certificate of Australian citizenship granted to him—that person shall, upon demand in writing by the Minister, surrender that certificate to the Minister for cancellation; and
    (b) if that person is an Australian citizen by reason of the inclusion of his name in a certificate of Australian citizenship granted to another person—that other person shall, upon demand in writing by the Minister, surrender that certificate to the Minister to enable the Minister to amend that certificate under section 47.
"(2) Where an order is made under sub-section 44a (4) revoking an evidentiary certificate issued to a person under section 44a, the person shall, upon demand in writing by the Secretary, surrender the certificate to the Secretary for cancellation.
"(3) A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes sub-section (1) or (2) is guilty of an offence punishable on conviction by a fine not exceeding $1,000.

Offence to alter certificate
"49. A person shall not, without lawful authority, alter, or cause or permit to be altered, a certificate of Australian citizenship.
Penalty: $2,000 or imprisonment for 12