NATURALIZATION.
No. 44 of 1902.
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intends if naturalized to reside permanently in Hong Kong, may apply to the Governor for a certificate of naturalization as a British subject in Hong Kong.
3. The applicant shall adduce in support of his application evidence in such evidence of his residence or service, and intention to support of application, reside, as the Governor may require; and the Governor may, on consideration of the evidence adduced, grant or withhold a certificate as he thinks most conducive to the public good, and no appeal shall lie from his decision. Any such certificate may be in the form in the Schedule.
Schedule.
4. Every such certificate shall contain the condition that the Conditions. grantee shall continue to reside permanently in Hong Kong and that the certificate shall be determinable on the grantee ceasing so to reside. No certificate of naturalization shall be issued or take effect until the applicant has taken the oath of allegiance.
to alien
5. Any alien who has been naturalized previously to the Certificate passing of this Ordinance may apply to the Governor for a previously
certificate of naturalization under this Ordinance, and it shall naturalized. be lawful for the Governor to grant such certificate upon the same terms and subject to the same conditions in and upon which such certificate might have been granted if such alien had not been previously naturalized in Hong Kong.
etc., of naturalized
6. Any alien to whom a certificate of naturalization is Rights, granted shall while in Hong Kong be entitled to all political and other rights, powers and privileges, and be subject to all obligations, to which a natural-born British subject is entitled or subject in Hong Kong.
7.-(1) Where the Governor is satisfied that any certificate of naturalization granted at any time whatsoever under this Ordinance was obtained by false representation or fraud, or by concealment of material circumstances, or that the person to whom the certificate was granted has shown himself by act or speech to be disaffected or disloyal to His Majesty, the Governor shall by order revoke the certificate.
(2) Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions the Governor shall by order revoke a certificate of naturalization
* As amended by No. 1 of 1928 [16.3.28] and Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
} alien. [cf. No. 16 of 1936, s. 2 (2) (c).]
Revocation of certificate zation.
of naturali-
8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 38, s. 1.
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