(1.3) A person who would not become a citizen under paragraph (1)(q)
for the sole reason that his or her parent died before January 1, 1947 and did not become a citizen on that day
under the Canadian Citizenship Act, S.C. 1946, c. 15, is, nonetheless, a citizen under that paragraph if his or her parent would have been a citizen if tha
t Act had come into force immediately before their death and the date referred to in the provisions
...[+++] of that Act that set out the requirements to be met to become a citizen had been the day of that coming into force rather than January 1, 1947.