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Registry of births abroad.
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7.—Section 27 of the Act of 1956 is hereby amended—
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(a) by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsections:
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“(1) A foreign births entry book shall be kept at such Irish diplomatic missions and consular offices as the Minister for Foreign Affairs may, from time to time, specify in regulations.
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(1A) A foreign births register shall be kept in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin.”,
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(b) in subsection (2), by the substitution for “birth outside Ireland” of “birth outside the island of Ireland” and the substitution for “born outside Ireland” of “so born”,
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(c) in subsection (3), by the substitution for “External Affairs” of “Foreign Affairs”,
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(d) in subsection (5), after “the registration of births therein,” by the insertion of “the amendment or deletion of incorrect entries therein,”,
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(e) in subsection (5), by the substitution for “External Affairs” of “Foreign Affairs”, and
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(f) the insertion after subsection (5) of the following subsection:
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“(6) Where the foreign births regulations provide for the amendment or deletion of incorrect entries made in any foreign births entry book or the foreign births register, the regulations may, at the discretion of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, also provide for notice to be given and the time in which notice shall be given, before any such proposed amendment or deletion is made, to any person (whose whereabouts is known and can readily be found) affected by the proposal and the manner, the time in which and to whom representations may be made in respect of the proposal by any such person.”.
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