AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT 1986 No. 70 of 1986 - SECT 4 Citizenship by birth

AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT 1986 No. 70 of 1986 - SECT 4

4. Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following
        sub-section:

"(2) Subject to sub-section (3), a person born in Australia after the
commencement of the Australian Citizenship Amendment Act 1986 shall be an
Australian citizen by virtue of that birth if and only if-

   (a)  a parent of the person was, at the time of the person's birth, an
        Australian citizen or a permanent resident; or

   (b)  the person has, throughout the period of 10 years commencing on the
        day on which the person was born, been ordinarily resident in
        Australia.";

   (b)  by omitting sub-section (4); and

   (c)  by adding at the end the following sub-section:

"(6) A reference in this section to a permanent resident does not include a
reference to a person to whom, by virtue of section 8 of the Migration Act 
1958 , Division 1 of Part II of that Act does not apply.".