British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1973
British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1973
British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1973
British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1973
Public Act |
1973 No 51 |
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Date of assent |
21 November 1973 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title and commencement
(1)
This Act may be cited as the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1973, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
(2)
This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of January 1974.
2 British nationality by virtue of citizenship
(1)
Section 3 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (3) (as substituted by section 2 of the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Amendment Act 1965) the word “Pakistan”
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(2)
The following enactments are hereby repealed:
(a)
The Republic of Pakistan Act 1956:
(b)
So much of the First Schedule to the Niue Act 1966 as relates to the Republic of Pakistan Act 1956.
3 Registration of citizens of the Republic of Pakistan
Section 8 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (2), the following subsection:
“(2a)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this section, an application for registration under this section may be made to the Minister in the prescribed manner before the 1st day of January 1975 by a person who is a citizen of the Republic of Pakistan, and may be completed, as if the person making the application were a citizen of a country referred to in subsection (3) of section 3 of this Act.”
This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.