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Form and operation of certificate of naturalisation.
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8.—(1) Every certificate of naturalisation issued under this Act shall be in the prescribed form and sealed with the official seal of the Minister and shall be expressed and shall, as from the issue thereof and so long as it remains unrevoked, operate to confer on the person named therein the same status as a natural-born citizen of Saorstát Eireann.
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(2) There shall be charged and paid on the issue of every certificate of naturalisation under this Act such fee as may be prescribed.
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(3) The Minister may, on application being made to him in the prescribed form and manner, issue, on payment of the prescribed fee, a copy, certified in the prescribed manner to be a correct copy, of any certificate of naturalisation issued under this Act.
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(4) A person to whom a certificate of naturalisation is issued under this Act shall, as from the issue of such certificate and so long as such certificate remains unrevoked, be entitled to and have (subject to the provisions of this Act) all the political and other rights, powers, and privileges of a natural-born citizen of Saorstát Eireann and be subject to all the obligations, duties, and liabilities of such natural-born citizen, but, in the case of a certificate of naturalisation issued to a person who has not attained the age of twenty-one years, without prejudice while he is under that age to the limitations arising from the fact of his not having attained the said age.
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(5) As soon as may be after the issue, under this Act, of a certificate of naturalisation, the Minister shall publish in the Iris Oifigiúil notice of the fact of the issue of such certificate and of the name of the person to whom it was issued and such other (if any) particulars thereof as the Minister shall think proper.
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