902 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1898.
Short title
No. 20 OF 1898.
An Ordinance to amend the Births and Deaths
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Registration Ordinance, 1896.
WILSONE BLACK,
Officer Administering the Government.
[17th September, 1898.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Births and Deaths and construc- Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1898, and shall be read and construed as one with the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896, (No. 16 of 1896).
tion.
Amendment
2. Section 10 of Ordinance No. 16 of 1896 is hereby of section 10 amended by adding at the end thereof the words follow-
f Ordinance No. 16 of 1896, by add- ing proviso.
Short title.
Fee for maturaliza- tion.
Pres hitherto amid legal-
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ing:-
Provided that whenever it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar General that, owing to absence from the Colony or other reasonable cause, the parent, guardian, or other person procuring such name to be altered or given, is unable to attend personally before the Registrar General to make a declaration in writing in accordance with this section, the Registrar General may, in his discretion, accept in lieu thereof a declaration in writing made before any person competent to take statutory declarations or may accept such other evidence as he may in the circumstances deem sufficient, and may, thereupon, act in all respects as if a declaration in writing had been made before him per- sonally.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 12th day of September, 1895.
J. G. T. BUCKLE,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 17th day of September, 1898.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 21 or 1898.
An Ordinance authorizing the imposition of fees for the Naturalization of aliens naturalized as British Subjects within the limits of Hong- kong.
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WILSONE BLACK,
Officer Administering the Government.
[17th September, 1898.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as the Naturalization Fees Ordinance, 1898.
2. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to fix and declare the fees which shall be paid for the naturaliza- tion as a British Subject within the limits of this Colony of an alien applying to be so naturalized. The Order in Council fixing such fees shall be published in the Gazette and the scale of fees may be varied from time to time by Order of the Governor in Council published as aforesaid.
Unless and until some other fee is fixed and declared by
Order in Council, the fee of $250 at present charged shail continue to be the fee payable.
3. All fees hitherto charged and paid into the Treasury in respect of Ordinances of Naturalization before the con- mencement of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been legally charged aud received.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 12th day of September, 1898.
J. G. T. BUCKLE,
Clerk of Councils.
Asseuted to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 17th day of September, 1898.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary,