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British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1962

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Act Repealed Latest version as at 23 November 1962 (as enacted) | 1962 No 26

British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1962

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British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1962

Public Act
  
1962 No 26
Date of assent
  
23 November 1962
 

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An Act to amend the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1962, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 British nationality by virtue of citizenship

(1)

Section 3 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (3) (as substituted by section 2 of the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1959) the words “the Union of South Africa”.

(2)

This section shall come into force on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and sixty-three.

3 Registration of citizens of the Republic of South Africa

Section 8 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (2), the following subsection:

“(3)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this section an application for registration under this section may be made to the Minister in the prescribed manner before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and sixty-four, by a person who is a citizen of the Republic of South Africa, and may be completed, as if the person making the application were a citizen of a country referred to in subsection (3) of section 3 of this Act.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.
Act Repealed Latest version as at 23 November 1962 (as enacted)

British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1962

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