Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person is an Australian citizen if:
(a) any territory becomes a part of Australia; and
(b) the person is included in a class of persons specified in a determination under this section.
Determination
(2) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine that specified classes of persons are Australian citizens from a specified day because of their connection with that territory.
Day citizenship begins
(3) The person becomes an Australian citizen on that day.
Retrospective application of instruments
(4) Subsection 12(2) (retrospective application of legislative instruments) of the Legislation Act 2003 does not apply to the instrument.