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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 22, 1915.
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9.-(1) This Part of this Act shall not, nor shall any certificate of natur- A.D. 1914. alization granted thereunder, have effect within any of the Dominions specified Application in the First Schedule to this Act, unless the Legislature of that Dominion of Part II. adopts this Part of this Act.
(2) Where the Legislature of any such Dominion has adopted this Part of this Act, the Government of the Dominion shall have the like powers to make regulations with respect to certificates of naturalization and to oaths of allegiance as are conferred by this Act on the Secretary of State.
(3) The Legislature of any such Dominion which adopts this Part of this Act may provide how and by what Department of the Government the powers conferred by this Part of this Act on the Government of a British Possession are to be exercised.
(4) The Legislature of any such Dominion may at any time rescind the adoption of this Part of this Act, provided that no such rescission shall prejudicially affect any legal rights existing at the time of such rescission.
to Self- Governing Dominions.
PART III.
GENERAL.
National Status of Married Women and Infant Children.
status of
10. The wife of a British subject shall be deemed to be a British subject, and National the wife of an alien shall be deemed to be an alien: Provided that where a married man ceases during the continuance of his marriage to be a British subject it women. shall be lawful for his wife to make a declaration that she desires to retain British nationality, and thereupon she shall be deemed to remain a British subject.
widows.
11. A woman who, having been a British subject, has by, or in conse- Status of quence of, her marriage become an alien, shall not, by reason only of the death of her husband, or the dissolution of her marriage, cease to be an alien, and a woman who, having been an alien, has by, or in consequence of, her marriage become a British subject, shall not, by reason only of the death of her husband or the dissolution of her marriage, cease to be a British subject.
children.
12.-(1) Where a person being a British subject ceases to be a British Status of subject, whether by declaration of alienage or otherwise, every child of that person, being a minor, shall thereupon cease to be a British subject, unless such child, on that person ceasing to be a British subject, does not become by the law of any other country naturalized in that country:
Provided that, where a widow who is a British subject marries an alien, any child of hers by her former husband shall not, by reason only of her marriage, cease to be a British subject, whether he is residing outside His Majesty's dominions or not.
(2) Any child who has so ceased to be a British subject may, within one year after attaining his majority, make a declaration that he wishes to resume British nationality, and shall thereupon again become a British subject.
Loss of British Nationality.
British
13. A British subject who, when in any foreign state and not under Loss of disability, by obtaining a certificate of naturalization, or by any other voluntary nationality and formal act,. becomes naturalized therein, shall thenceforth be deemed to by foreign have ceased to be a British subject.
naturaliza- tion.
of alienage.
14. (1) Any person who by reason of his having been born within His Declaration Majesty's dominions and allegiance or on board a British ship is a natural-born British subject, but who at his birth or during his minority became under the law of any foreign state a subject also of that state, and is still such a subject, may, if of full age and not under disability, make a declaration of alicnage, and on making the declaration shall cease to be a British subject.
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