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Versions of s. 5.1(6)

C-29 — Citizenship Act · 2 versions · View current text

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2025-12-15 to present available View Source
    Paragraphs 5.1(4)(a) and (a.1) do not apply to aA person who iswould adoptednot be granted citizenship under any of subsections (1) to (3) for the sole reason that their adoptive parent or both their adoptive parent and their adoptive parent’s parent died before Aprilthe 1,coming 1949into force of An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025) may be granted citizenship under that subsection if that adoptive parent — or both that adoptive parent and that adoptive parent’s parent — but for their death, would have been a citizen as a result of the coming into force of that Act.
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    A person who would not be granted citizenship under any of subsections (1) to (3) for the sole reason that their adoptive parent or both their adoptive parent and their adoptive parent’s parent died before the coming into force of An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025) may be granted citizenship under that subsection if that adoptive parent — or both that adoptive parent and that adoptive parent’s parent — but for their death, would have been a citizen as a result of the coming into force of that Act.

  2. 2015-06-11 to 2025-12-15 View Source

    Paragraphs 5.1(4)(a) and (a.1) do not apply to a person who is adopted before April 1, 1949 if