Rights of citizenship of certain persons resident abroad 8. The Government may, upon application made to it in this behalf, register as a citizen of Bangladesh any person who, or whose father or whose father's father, was born in the IndoPakistan sub-continent and who is ordinarily resident in a country outside Bangladesh at the commencement of this Act, if he has, unless exempted by the Government in this behalf, obtained a certificate of domicile: Provided that a certificate of domicile shall not be required in the case of any such person who is out of Bangladesh under the protection of a Bangladesh passport, or in the case of any such person whose father or whose father's father is at the commencement of this Act residing in Bangladesh or becomes, before the aforesaid application is made, a citizen of Bangladesh. Citizenship by naturalization 9. The Government may, upon an application made to it in that behalf by any person who has been granted a certificate of naturalisation under the Naturalisation Act, 1926, register that person as a citizen of Bangladesh by naturalisation: Provided that the Government may register any person as a citizen of Bangladesh without his having obtained a certificate of naturalisation as aforesaid. Married women 10. (1) Any woman who by reason of her marriage to a British subject before the first day of January, 1949, has acquired the status of a British subject shall, if her husband becomes a citizen of Bangladesh, be a citizen of Bangladesh. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1) and sub-section (4) a woman who has been married to a citizen of Bangladesh or to a person who but for his death would have been a citizen of Bangladesh under sections 3, 4 or 5 shall be entitled, on making application therefore to the Government in the prescribed manner, and, if she is an alien, on obtaining a certificate of domicile and taking the oath of allegiance in the form set out in the Schedule to this Act, to be registered as a citizen of Bangladesh whether or not she has completed twenty-one years of her age and is of full capacity. (3) Subject as aforesaid, a woman who has been married to a person who, but for his death, could have been a citizen of Bangladesh under the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 6 (whether he migrated as provided in that sub-section or is deemed under the proviso to section 7 to have so migrated) shall be entitled as provided in sub-section (2) subject further, if she is an alien, to her obtaining the certificate and taking the oath therein mentioned.