Mahkamah ini bersetuju dengan hujahan Responden bahawa dalam keadaan kanak-kanak adalah tidak sah taraf perkataan ibu bapa dalam seksyen 1(a) Bahagian II, Jadual Kedua yang sah berkahwin dan bukannya ibu angkat atau bapa angkat atau yang kemudiannya menjadi ibu bapa. Ini sebagaimana yang diputuskan oleh Mahkamah Rayuan di dalam kes Pendaftar Besar Kelahiran dan Kematian, Malaysia v Pang Wee See & anor [2017] 3 MLJ 308, Abang Iskandar JCA (menyampaikan keputusan) sebagaimana berikut: [31] What had become clear to us had been that one of the key ingredients stipulated in art 14(1)(b) read together with s 1(a) of Part II of the Second Schedule of the Federal Constitution, is that the person seeking to be a citizen of Malaysia via this specific constitutional provision must show proof that when he was born in this country, one of his parents must either be a citizen of Malaysia or was permanently resident in this country. The phrase that is employed under that provision reads, ‘is at the time of the birth’. To our minds, that phrase has categorically made a reference to the biological parent of the person, who must either be a Malaysian citizen or a person who is permanently resident in Malaysia. By virtue of this phrase, any person intending to claim citizenship by operation of law under the above stated constitutional provision, it is not sufficient that he or she was born in Malaysia. He must be a person, whose either parent was a Malaysian citizen or a Malaysian permanent resident, when he was born in Malaysia. That provision does not contain any reference to an adoptive parent, albeit a Malaysian adoptive parent.