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sections 1 to 21 of the Second Schedule to the Constitution shall become Part III of it, and (save as otherwise provided by this Act) after the words “Part III”, wherever occurring in those sections, there shall be inserted the words “of this Constitution”; and

in Article 31 of the Constitution before the words “the

Second Schedule” there shall be inserted the words

“Part III of”, and in Article 159, in Clause (4)(a), for the words “the Second” there shall be substituted the words “Part III of the Second or to the”.

In the Second Schedule to the Constitution, after section 19 in Part III, there shall be inserted as sections 19a,

19b and 19c the sections so numbered in Part III of the

Third Schedule to this Act.

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In Article 30 of the Constitution, in Clause (2), for the words “this Article” there shall be substituted the words

“Clause (1)”, and at the end of the Article there shall be added as Clauses (3) and (4)—

“(3)  For the purpose of determining whether a person was born a citizen of the Federation, any question whether he was born a citizen of another country shall be decided by the

Federal Government, whose certificate thereon (unless proved to have been obtained by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of a material fact) shall be conclusive; and this

Clause shall apply to questions arising under the Constitution of the State of Singapore as well as to questions arising under this Constitution.

Any certificate issued under Clause (1) may state that the person to whom it relates is or is not a Singapore citizen, and

Clause (2) shall apply accordingly; and if the Constitution of the State of Singapore provides for the government of the State to issue certificates of Singapore citizenship, Clause (2) shall apply in relation to a certificate issued under that provision as it applies to a certificate issued under Clause (1).”