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No. 44 of 1902.
NATURALIZATION.
Fee.
Loss of local naturalization rights upon foreign naturalization.
8. There shall be paid for every certificate of naturalization and before the issue thereof such fee as the Governor in Council may direct.
9. (1) A person who has obtained a certificate of naturalization under any Ordinance for the naturalization of persons as British subjects within this Colony and who, when in any foreign state and not under disability, by obtaining a certificate of naturalization or by any other voluntary or formal act becomes naturalized therein, shall thenceforth be deemed to have ceased to be a naturalized British subject within the Colony.
4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 17, s. 13.
Oath.
+ Ordinance No. 1 of 1869.
(2) When any person who has been granted a certificate of naturalization within the Colony is deemed to have ceased to be a British subject within the Colony, his certificate shall thereupon be given up and cancelled, and any person refusing or neglecting to give up any such certificate shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
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10.—(1) An alien on naturalization shall take the oath of allegiance in the form provided in the Promissory Oaths Ordinance, 1869, and the oath shall be tendered by the Clerk of Councils in the presence of the Colonial Secretary.
(2) If an alien who has applied for a certificate of naturalization declines or neglects to take the oath of allegiance when duly tendered, he shall be disqualified from obtaining the said certificate, and if the same has already been granted, it shall become ipso facto void.
[s. 3.]
SCHEDULE.
FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF NATURALIZATION.
The Naturalization Ordinance, 1902.
Governor.
By His Excellency
Governor of Hong Kong.
WHEREAS
a subject of
*The fee directed to be paid is $250-G.N. 552 of 8.10.1926.
+ As amended by No. 1 of 1928 [16.3.28] and Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
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