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Applications for certificates of nationality by persons to whom section 6A applies.
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14.—The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section:
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“28A.—(1) A person who makes an application under section 28 shall make and provide to the Minister or an Irish diplomatic or consular officer a declaration in such manner as may be prescribed that his or her parent resided in Northern Ireland for such period as is stated in that declaration.
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(2) The Minister or an Irish diplomatic or consular officer may require a person who makes an application under section 28 to produce to him or her—
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(a) documents of such a class as may be prescribed, or
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(b) such other documents as he or she considers necessary or expedient to enable him or her to perform his or her functions under this section.
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(3) For the purposes of this section different classes of documents may be prescribed in respect of different classes of person making an application under section 28.
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(4) This section applies to a person who claims to be entitled to be an Irish citizen under section 6A(1) by virtue of one of his or her parents having resided—
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(a) in Northern Ireland for a period of not less than 3 years or periods the aggregate of which is not less than 3 years, or
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(b) in Northern Ireland and the State for periods the aggregate of which is not less than 3 years,
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but shall not include a person one of whose parents was, during the entire of that period or those periods and at the time of the person's birth, a national of a Member State, an EEA state or the Swiss Confederation.
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(5) An application under section 28 in respect of a minor shall be made on his or her behalf by his or her parent or guardian, or by a person who is in loco parentis to him or her.
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(6) An application under section 28 in respect of a person who is suffering from a mental incapacity shall be made on his or her behalf by a person duly authorised to act on his or her behalf.”.
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