Grounds Article Provided that a person shall not be deprived of citizenship under this Clause by reason of anything done before the beginning of October 1962, in relation to a foreign country, and before the beginning of January 1977, in relation to a Commonwealth country, notwithstanding that he was at the time a citizen. 2. A five-year continuous 25. (2) The Federal Government may by order residence in deprive of his citizenship any person who is a countries outside citizen by registration under Article 16A or 17 or the Federation, a citizen by naturalization if satisfied that he has unless in service of been ordinarily resident in countries outside the the Federation or Federation for a continuous period of five years registered annually and during that period has neither— at a Consulate to retain their Malaysian citizenship (a) been at any time in the service of the Federation or of an international organization of which the Federal Government was a member; nor (b) registered annually at a consulate of the Federation his intention to retain his citizenship: Provided that this Clause shall not apply to any period of residence in any Commonwealth country before the beginning of January 1977. 3. Parental renunciation 26A. Where a person has renounced his or deprivation of citizenship or been deprived thereof under Clause citizenship (for (1) of Article 24 or paragraph (a) of Clause (1) of children who obtained Article 26, the Federal citizenship by Government may by order deprive of his registration) citizenship any child of that person under the age of twenty-one who has been 65