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AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 129 of 1984 - SECT 17

AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 129 of 1984 - SECT 17

17. After section 23 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Persons may resume citizenship lost under section 17 in certain circumstances

"23AA. (1) Where a person does an act or thing that, under section 17, results
in the person ceasing to be an Australian citizen and -

   (a)  if he did not do the act or thing, he would have suffered significant
        hardship or detriment; or

   (b)  at the time he did the act or thing he did not know that he would, as
        a consequence of his doing the act or thing, cease to be an Australian
        citizen, the person may make and furnish to the Minister a statement
        to that effect and a declaration in accordance with the prescribed
        form that he wishes to resume Australian citizenship.

"(2) The Minister may, in his discretion, if he is satisfied as to the truth
of the statement made by a person for the purposes of sub-section (1), and, in
a case where the person has claimed that, if he had not done the act or thing
that resulted in his ceasing to be an Australian citizen, he would have
suffered hardship or detriment of an economic nature, that the person's
circumstances were such as to compel him to do that act or thing, register the
declaration in the prescribed manner and, upon the registration of the
declaration, the person making the declaration again becomes an Australian
citizen.".