Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT 2007 - SECT 7

Persons born on ships or aircraft

             (1)  For the purposes of this Act:

                     (a)  a person born on a ship or aircraft registered in Australia or a foreign country is taken to have been born at the place at which the ship or aircraft is registered; and

                     (b)  a person born on a ship or aircraft not registered in Australia or a foreign country and belonging to the government of a country is taken to have been born in that country.

Persons born after death of parent

             (2)  For the purposes of this Act, the status of a parent of a person at the time of the person's birth is, for a parent who died before the birth, taken to be the status of the parent when the parent died.