Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024
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PART 13 Consequential and other Amendments | ||
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Amendment of Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 | ||
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226. The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 11: | ||
“Citizenship of children born as result of donor-assisted human reproduction procedures or surrogacy | ||
11A. (1) Subject to subsection (2), for the purposes of this Act, ‘parent’ shall include a person who is, under section 5 of the Act of 2015, a parent of a child born in the State. | ||
(2) Where a person who is an Irish citizen is declared under section 21 or 22 of the Act of 2015 to be a parent of a child, the child, if not already an Irish citizen, shall be an Irish citizen from the date on which the declaration is made. | ||
(3) Where— | ||
(a) a parental order is granted in respect of a child, and | ||
(b) an intending parent named in the parental order as a parent of the child is an Irish citizen, | ||
the child, if not already an Irish citizen, shall be an Irish citizen from the date on which the parental order is granted. | ||
(4) This section shall apply to a child born before or after the commencement of this section. | ||
(5) In this section— | ||
‘Act of 2015’ means the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 ; | ||
‘Act of 2024’ means the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024; | ||
‘intending parent’ has the meaning assigned to it by the Act of 2024; | ||
‘parental order’ means an order granted under section 66 (1)(a), 103 (1)(a), 205 or 217 of the Act of 2024 for the transfer of the parentage of a child.”. |