Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004
Amendment of section 6 of Principal Act. |
3.—Section 6 (inserted by section 3(1) of the Act of 2001) of the Principal Act is amended by— | |
(a) the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1): | ||
“(1) Subject to section 6A (inserted by section 4 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004), every person born in the island of Ireland is entitled to be an Irish citizen.”, | ||
(b) the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a) of subsection (2): | ||
“(a) Subject to subsection (5), a person who is entitled under subsection (1) to be an Irish citizen shall be an Irish citizen from the date of his or her birth if— | ||
(i) he or she does any act that only an Irish citizen is entitled to do, or | ||
(ii) in the case of a person who is not of full age or who is suffering from a mental incapacity, any act is done on his or her behalf that only an Irish citizen is entitled to do.”, | ||
(c) the deletion of subsection (4), and | ||
(d) the insertion of the following subsection: | ||
“(6) In this section ‘person’ does not include a person born in the island of Ireland on or after the commencement of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004— | ||
(a) neither of whose parents was at the time of the person's birth— | ||
(i) an Irish citizen or entitled to be an Irish citizen, | ||
(ii) a British citizen, | ||
(iii) a person entitled to reside in the State without any restriction on his or her period of residence (including in accordance with a permission granted under section 4 of the Act of 2004), or | ||
(iv) a person entitled to reside in Northern Ireland without any restriction on his or her period of residence, | ||
and | ||
(b) at least one of whose parents was at that time entitled to diplomatic immunity in the State.”. |