NATURALIZATION.
No. 44 of 1902.
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A notification of the revocation of any certificate of naturalization shall be published in the Gazette.
8. There shall be paid for every certificate of naturalization and Fee. before the issue thereof such fee as the Governor-in-Council may direct.
[s. 9, rep. No. 1 of 1912.]
§
10.—(1) An alien on naturalization shall take the oath of allegiance in the form provided in the Promissory Oaths Ordinance, 1869, No. 1 of 1869, and the same shall be tendered by the Clerk of the 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.
(3) Section 15 of the Promissory Oaths Ordinance, 1869, shall apply to the oath required to be taken by this section.
SCHEDULE.
FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF NATURALIZATION.
By His Excellency
Governor of Hongkong.
WHEREAS
of
a subject of
has applied to me for a Certificate of Naturalization as a British Subject:
AND whereas the said
has satisfied me that he has before making such application continuously resided in Hongkong (or been in the service of the Crown) for the space of
that he intends if naturalized to reside permanently in Hongkong:
years,* and
*[The term must not be less than 5 years.]
Now, therefore, I, the said
as Governor aforesaid, Do hereby under the powers vested in me in that regard by the Naturalization Ordinance, 1902, certify that the said
of
is a Naturalized British subject entitled in Hongkong to all political and other rights, powers, and privileges, and subject to all obligations to which a natural-born British subject is entitled or subject in Hongkong.
Given under my hand this
day of
.19.
By Command,
As amended by No. 50 of 1911. For the fee directed see Bowley's Regulations of Hongkong 1910 p. 458.
§ As amended by No. 8 of 1912 s. 15.