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that she has resided in the Federation outside Singapore throughout the two years preceding the date of the application, and intends to do so permanently; and

that she is of good character.

Act 26/1963

Subject to Article 18, the Federal Government may cause any person under the age of twenty-one years of whose parents one at least is (or was at death) a citizen, but not a Singapore citizen, to be registered as a citizen upon application made to the Federal Government by his parent or guardian.

Subject to Article 18, a person under the age of twenty-one years who was born before the beginning of October, 1962, and whose father is (or was at his death) a citizen, but not a

Singapore citizen, and was also a citizen at the beginning of that month (if then alive), is entitled upon application made to the

Federal Government by his parent or guardian, to be registered as a citizen if the Federal Government is satisfied that he is ordinarily resident in the Federation outside Singapore and is of good character.

For the purposes of Clause (1), residence before Malaysia

Day in the territories comprised in the Borneo States shall be treated as residence in the Federation outside Singapore.

The reference in Clause (1) to a married woman is a reference to a woman whose marriage has been registered in accordance with any written law in force in the Federation, including any such law in force before Merdeka Day, or with any written law in force before Malaysia Day in the territories comprised in the

Borneo States or Singapore:

Provided that this Clause shall not apply where the woman applies to be registered as a citizen before the beginning of September, 1965, or such later date as may be fixed by order of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, and is at the date of the application ordinarily resident in the Borneo States or

Singapore.

In Clause (1), the words “outside Singapore” shall not have effect in the case of a woman whose husband is a citizen by naturalization under Clause (2) of Article 19.

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Citizenship by registration (persons resident in Borneo States on Malaysia Day) (Article 16a)