Aliens Restriction Bill.
[AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE A.]
MEMORANDUM,
The Aliens Restriction Act of 1914, which was passed on the day after the declaration of War, confers power to make Orders in Council imposing restrictions on aliens, which power is limited to a time when a state of war exists between His Majesty and any foreign power, or when it appears that an occasion of imminent national danger or great emergency has arisen. The Act enables provision to be made-
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(a) for prohibiting alieus from landing in the United Kingdom, either generally or at certain places, and for imposing restrictions or conditions on aliens landing or arriving at any port in the United Kingdom; and
(b) for prohibiting allens from embarking in the United Kingdom, either generally or at certain places, and for imposing restrictions and conditions on aliens embarking or about to embark in the United Kingdom; and
(c) for the deportation of aliens from the United Kingdom; and (d) for requiring aliens to reside and remain within certain places or
districts; and
(e) for prohibiting aliens from residing or remaining in any areas specified
in the Order and
*() for requiring aliens residing in the United Kingdom to comply with such provisious as to registration, change of abode, travelling, or otherwise as may be made by the Order; and
(g) for the appointment of officers to carry the Order into effect, and for conferring on such officers and on the Secretary of State auch powers as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the Order: and
"() for imposing penalties on persons who aid or abat any contravention of the Order, and for imposing such obligations and restrictions on masters of ships or any other persons specified in the Order as appear necessary or expedient for giving full effect to the Order; and
(i) for conferring upon such persons as may be specified in the Order such powers with respect to arrest, detention, search of premises or persons, and otherwise, as may be specified in the Order, and for any other ancillary matters for which it appears expedient to provide with a view to giving full effect to the Order; and
(A) for any other matters which appear necessary or expedient with a
view to the safety of the realm."
It is under the powers conferred by the above Act that the various Aliens Restrictions Orders have been made during
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