Australian citizenship act 1948

While the Act had symbolic importance, it was driven more by pragmatism than a desire to enshrine a distinct national identity. The Act introduced an oath of allegiance taken as part of a ceremony for new citizens. Simplified outline 16.

Citizenship for abandoned children 15. Application and eligibility for citizenship 17. Day citizenship begins 19A. The same residency, good character, and language requirements applied equally to everyone. They will adopt that common citizenship which we all hold now by virtue of that Act of Parliament.

Get this from a library! Human Rights Commission. It provided for citizenship by birth, by descent and by grant and set out a system to regulate the gaining of such citizenship.

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to get the full Trove experience. Australian citizens continued to also be British subjects. What is Migration Fraud?

Its origin lies in s. However, the power was never used. The procedure and the role for the courts in that process has never been clarified at law. That Act also allowed for maternal descent where the child was illegitimate. Before then, in common law, to be a British subject, one simply had to be born in any territory under the sovereignty of the British Crown. Displaced migrants from Europe were followed by economic migrants from Britain and the rest of Europe.

Both acts initially provided wide grounds for citizenship revocation.