Mr. Chair, when Parliament passed the new Citizenship Act in 1977, the entire 1947 act was repealed. In citizenship law, the status or the citizenship that an individual may have would depend, sometimes, on the law that was in place at a particular major life moment—for example, when someone was born or when someone lost their citizenship. Therefore, although the 1947 act is no longer in effect, individuals may not be citizens today because of something that had happened during the time that 1947 act was in place—in other words, between 1947 and 1977.
On May 2nd, 2007. See this statement in context.