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AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT 2007 - SECT 32

Day citizenship begins again etc.

  (1)   A person becomes an Australian citizen again on the day on which the Minister approves the person becoming an Australian citizen again.

Same kind of citizenship--former citizen under this Act

  (2)   If the person, before ceasing to be an Australian citizen, was an Australian citizen under Subdivision   A, AA or B, the person becomes an Australian citizen again under that Subdivision.

Note:   One of the effects of this subsection is that the Minister is able to revoke the person's citizenship: see section   34.

Same kind of citizenship--former citizen under old Act

  (3)   If the person, before ceasing to be an Australian citizen, was an Australian citizen under the provision set out in column 2 of the following table, the person becomes an Australian citizen again under the provision set out in column 3 of the table.

 

Same kind of citizenship

Column 1
Item

Column 2
Provision under which person was a citizen

Column 3
Provision under which person becomes a citizen again

1

Section   10B, 10C or 11 of the old Act

Subdivision   A of this Division

2

Division   2 of Part   III of the old Act

Subdivision   B of this Division

Note:   One of the effects of this subsection is that the Minister is able to revoke the person's citizenship: see section   34.


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