Effect of grant of certificate and taking of oath
7.(1) No certificate of naturalization shall have effect until the person to whom it is granted has taken and subscribed the oath prescribed by section 6, but upon the taking and subscribing of such oath such person, and any child of any such person who
has been included in the certificate under sub-section (2) of section 5, shall be deemed to be citizens of Bangladesh and be entitled to all the rights, privileges and capacities of a citizen of Bangladesh born within Bangladesh, except such rights, privileges or capacities, if any, as may have been withheld from them respectively by the certificate, and shall within Bangladesh be subject to all the obligations, duties and liabilities of a citizen of Bangladesh; and the any such person to whom a certificate of naturalization is granted
[* * *] shall, if not already a citizen of Bangladesh, in like manner to be so deemed and be so entitled and so subject, if within one year, or such longer period as the Government may in special circumstances allow, from the date of the taking and subscribing of such oath by her husband, she makes to the Government a declaration that she desires to be deemed to be
a citizen of Bangladesh, and if she is an alien as defined in the [
Citizenship Act, 1951,] obtains a certificate of domicile under that Act, and takes and subscribe the oath prescribed by section 6 of this Act.
(2) When the person to whom a certificate of naturalization has been granted has taken and subscribed the oath prescribed by section 6, any wife thereafter married by, and any child thereafter born to, such person shall, if she or he is not a citizen of Bangladesh and if such person aforesaid at the date of the marriage or birth, as the case may be, retains any rights, privileges or capacities of a citizen of Bangladesh under this Act, be entitled, subject, in the case of a wife, to her making to the Government a declaration as provided in sub-section (1) and, if necessary, upon obtaining the certificate of domicile and making and subscribing the oath as further provided in that sub-section, to the same rights, privileges and
capacities, and be subject to the same obligations, duties and liabilities, to which such person aforesaid was at the date entitled and subject.
