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of", and in Article 159, in Clause (4) (a), for the words "the Second" there shall be substituted the words "Part III of the Second or to the".


 * (2) In the Second Schedule to the Constitution, after section 19 in Part III, there shall be inserted as sections 19A, 19B and 19C the sections so numbered in Part III of the Third Schedule to this Act.


 * (3) In Article 30 of the Constitution, in Clause (2), for the words "this Article" there shall be substituted the words "Clause (1)", and at the end of the Article there shall be added as Clauses (3) and (4)—


 * " (3) For the purpose of determining whether a person was born a citizen of the Federation, any question whether he was born a citizen of another country shall be decided by the Federal Government, whose certificate thereon (unless proved to have been obtained by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of a material fact) shall be conclusive; and this Clause shall apply to questions arising under the Constitution of the State of Singapore as well as to questions arising under this Constitution.


 * (4) Any certificate issued under Clause (1) may state that the person to whom it relates is or is not a Singapore citizen, and Clause (2) shall apply accordingly ; and if the Constitution of the State of Singapore provides for the government of the State to issue certificates of Singapore citizenship, Clause (2) shall apply in relation to a certificate issued under that provision as it applies to a certificate issued under Clause (1)."

Chapter 2—Citizenship by registration or naturalisation, and transfer to or from Singapore


 * 25. (1) Subject to Article 18, any married woman whose husband is a citizen, but not a Singapore citizen, is entitled, upon making application to the Federal Government, to be registered as a citizen if the marriage was subsisting and the husband a citizen at the beginning of October, 1962, or if she satisfies the Federal Government—


 * (a) that she has resided in the Federation outside Singapore throughout the two years preceding the date of the application, and intends to do so permanently ; and


 * (b) that she is of good character.


 * (2) Subject to Article 18, the Federal Government may cause any person under the age of twenty-one years of whose parents one at least is (or was at death) a citizen, but not a Singapore citizen, to be registered as a citizen upon application made to the Federal Government by his parent or guardian.


 * (3) Subject to Article 18, a person under the age of twenty-one years who was born before the beginning of October, 1962, and whose father