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 * (2) For the purposes of Articles 24, 25, 26 and 26A a person who on Malaysia Day becomes a citizen by operation of law because immediately before that day he has the status of a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies shall be treated—


 * (a) as a citizen by registration if he acquired that status by registration ; and


 * (b) as a citizen by naturalisation if he acquired that status by or in consequence of naturalisation ;

and references in those Articles to the registration or naturalisation of a citizen shall be construed accordingly.


 * (3) Where a woman is under this Article to be treated as a citizen by registration, and the status in consequence of which she is to be so treated was acquired by her by virtue of marriage, then for purposes of Clause (4) of Article 24 and Clause (2) of Article 26 she shall be treated as a citizen by registration under Clause (1) of Article 15.


 * (4) Where a person born before Malaysia Day is under this Article to be treated as a citizen by registration by virtue of a connection with a Borneo State or with Singapore and he was not born in the territories comprised in the Borneo States or, as the case may be, in the State of Singapore, Article 25 shall apply to him as if he were a citizen by registration under Article 16A or 17.


 * (5) Notwithstanding that a person is under this Article to be treated as a citizen by naturalisation, he shall not be deprived of his citizenship Under Article 25 if he was born before Malaysia Day in the territories comprised in the Borneo States and is to be so treated by virtue of a status acquired by or in consequence of naturalisation in those territories.


 * (6) Without prejudice to the foregoing Clauses, where on Malaysia Day a person becomes a citizen by operation of law in virtue of any status possessed by him immediately before that day, but he was liable in respect of things done before that day to be deprived of that status under the law relating thereto, then the Federal Government may by order deprive him of his citizenship, if proceedings for that purpose are begun before September, 1965 ; but Clause (2) of Article 26B and, subject to Clause (7), Article 27 shall apply to an order under this Clause as they apply to an order under Article 25.


 * (7) Where a person is liable to be deprived of citizenship under Clause (6) and proceedings had before Malaysia Day been begun to deprive him of the status in virtue of which he acquired his citizenship, those proceedings shall be treated as proceedings to deprive him of citizenship under that Clause, and shall be continued as such ; but they shall be continued in accordance with the law relating to that status immediately before Malaysia Day, and the functions of the Federal Government in relation thereto shall be delegated to such authority of the State in question as the Federal Government may determine.