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Australian Citizenship Act 2007
7Children born on ships or aircraft or after death of parent
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#### 7 Children born on ships or aircraft or after death of parent
Persons born on ships or aircraft
(1) For the purposes of this Act:
(a) a person born on a ship or aircraft registered in Australia or a foreign country is taken to have been born at the place at which the ship or aircraft is registered; and
(b) a person born on a ship or aircraft not registered in Australia or a foreign country and belonging to the government of a country is taken to have been born in that country.
Persons born after death of parent
(2) For the purposes of this Act, the status of a parent of a person at the time of the person’s birth is, for a parent who died before the birth, taken to be the status of the parent when the parent died.