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Amendment of section 15A of Principal Act.
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9.—Section 15A (inserted by section 5 of the Act of 2001) of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsections:
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“(3) Paragraph (h) of subsection (1) shall not apply to an applicant for a certificate of naturalisation to whom subsection (4) applies.
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(4) Any period of residence outside the island of Ireland, during which—
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(a) the applicant for a certificate of naturalisation to which this section applies was married to and living with his or her spouse, and
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(b) that applicant's spouse was in the public service,
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shall be reckoned as a period of residence in the island of Ireland for the purposes of calculating—
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(i) continuous residence under paragraph (f) of subsection (1), or
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(ii) total residence under paragraph (g) of that subsection.”.
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