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Miscellaneous amendments. 
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8.—The Act of 1956 is hereby amended— 
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(a) in section 14, by the substitution for “an alien” of “a non-national”, 
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(b) in section 16, by the deletion of paragraphs (d) and (e), 
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(c) in section 19(1)(c), by the substitution for “resident outside Ireland” of “resident outside the State or, in the case of an application for a certificate of naturalisation granted under section 15A, resident outside the island of Ireland”, 
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(d) in section 23, by the substitution for— 
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(i) “an alien” of “a non-national”, and 
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(ii) “the alien” of “the non-national”, 
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(e) in section 28(1), by the substitution for “Ireland” of “the island of Ireland”, and 
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(f) in section 29, by the substitution for “Ireland” of “the State”. 
 
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