Yes. They are transitional provisions that are required to enable the department to implement the bill and to guard against unintended consequences of the bill, such as.... The bill, as we've discussed, is automatically conferring citizenship on some, and that can have an impact on the children of those people.
One of the very important features of this particular amendment is to ensure that anyone who is a citizen on the day that the bill comes into force remains a citizen even if their parent, for example, in those section 8 loss cases, is becoming an automatic citizen back to the time of their loss.