Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 129 of 1984 - SECT 24

24. Sections 34 and 35 of the Principal Act are repealed and the following
section is substituted: Posthumous children

"34. (1) A reference in this Act to the status or description of a parent of a
person at the time of the person's birth shall, in the case of a parent who
died before the birth of the person, be read as a reference to the status or
description of the parent at the time of the parent's death.

"(2) Where the death of a parent of a person occurred prior to, and the birth
of the person occurred after, the commencement of this section, the status or
description that would have been applicable to the parent by virtue of
sub-section (1) if the parent had died after the commencement of the section
shall be deemed to be the status or description applicable to the parent at
the time of the death of the parent.".