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IRISH NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP ACT, 2001

(In force from June 2001)

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3.(1) The Act of 1956 is hereby amended by the substitution for sections 6 and 7 of the following sections:

''6. Citizenship by birth in the island of Ireland.-

(1) Every person born in the island of Ireland is entitled to be an Irish citizen.

(2) (a) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), a person born in the island of Ireland is an Irish citizen from birth if he or she does, or if not of full age has done on his or her behalf, any act which only an Irish citizen is entitled to do.

(b) The fact that a person so born has not done, or has not had done on his or her behalf, such an act shall not of itself give rise to a presumption that the person is not an Irish citizen or is a citizen of another country.

(3) A person born in the island of Ireland is an Irish citizen from birth if he or she is not entitled to citizenship of any other country.

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