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(c) any person who ordinary resident in the Colony, is a member of the Suluk, Kagayan, Simonol, Sibutu or Ubian people or of a people indigenous to the Colony of Sarawak or the State of Brunei, has lived as and been a member of a native community for a continunous priod of three years preceding the date of his claim to be a native, has borne a good character throughout that priod and whose stay in the Colony is not limited under any of the provisions of the Immigration Ordinance;
(d) any person who ordinary resident in the Colony, is a member of the indigenous to Indonesia, indigenous of islands in the Philippines Archipelago of the Federation of Malaya or the Colony of Singapore, has lived and been a member of a native community for countinuous priod of five years immediately preceding the date of his claim to be a native has borne a good character throughout that period and whose stay in the Colony is not limited under any of the provisions of the Immigration Ordinance.

No claim by any person to be a native by virtue of the provisions of paragraphs (b), (c), or (d) hereof shall shall be recognised as valid unless supported by a appropriate declaration made a Native Court under Section 3"