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Amendment of section 16A of Principal Act.
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11.—Section 16A (inserted by section 6 of the Act of 2001) of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):
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“(1) A period of residence in the State shall not be reckoned when calculating a period of residence for the purposes of granting a certificate of naturalisation if—
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(a) it is in contravention of section 5(1) of the Act of 2004,
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(b) it is in accordance with a permission given to a person under section 4 of the Act of 2004 for the purpose of enabling him or her to engage in a course of education or study in the State, or
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(c) it consists of a period during which a person (other than a person who was, during that period, a national of a Member State, an EEA state or the Swiss Confederation) referred to in subsection (2) of section 9 (amended by section 7(c)(i) of the Act of 2003) of the Act of 1996 is entitled to remain in the State in accordance only with the said subsection.”.
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