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(5) The Secretary of State when he grants an exemption under this section shall not permit an alien to assume any name at haphazard but shall ensure, as far as possible, that the new name is the equivalent in English of the alien's former name.
(6) A fee of not less than ten guineas shall be paid by any ō alien on obtaining an exemption under this section; but the Secretary of State may remit the whole or any part of such fee in special cases.
(7) A list of the persons to whom the Secretary of State has granted an exemption under this section, shall be published 10 in the Gazette as soon as may be after the granting of the exemption.
(8) Any person to whom any such exemption is granted shall, if the Secretary of State so requires, within one calendar month thereafter publish at his own expense, in some paper 15 circulating in the district in which he resides, an advertisement stating the fact that the exemption has been granted.
Special Provisions as to former Enemy Aliens.
8. (1) Every former enemy alien who is now in the enemy aliens. United Kingdom shall be deported forthwith unless he shall 20
within one month after the passing of this Act make an appli- cation to the Secretary of State in the prescribed form to be allowed to remain in the United Kingdom, stating the special grounds on which such application is based, and unless the Secretary of State after due inquiry shall grant him a licence 25 to remain.
(2) The applicant shall advertise notice of his application in some paper circulating in the district in which he resides or in which, if he is interned, he was residing previously to his internment.
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(3) The Secretary of State may, not less than one calendar month after the date of such advertisement, if he is satisfied that there is no adverse report on the applicant by the military or by the police authorities, grant such licence, subject to such terms and conditions (if any) as he shall think fit, on any one 35 or more of the following grounds, namely:--
(a) That the applicant, although a former enemy alien, is
in fact a member of a nation or a race hostile to the states recently at war with His Majesty and is well disposed to His Majesty and his Government;
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(b) That the applicant is seventy years of age or upwards A.D. 1919.
and has been at least fifteen years resident in the United Kingdom;
(c) That the applicant is suffering from serious illness or
infirmity of a permanent nature;
(d) That the applicant has one or more sons who voluntarily enlisted and served in the British Navy or Army or the Navy or Army of one of the Allied Powers; (e) That the applicant has lived for at least thirty-five years
in this country and married a British-born wife; (f) That the applicant, although her husband is a former enemy alien living abroad or deported, was at the time of her marriage a British subject or citizen of an allied state.
(4) If the application for a licence is made on any ground other than one or more of those above specified, the Secretary of State either shall refuse the application or may, if he is satisfied that owing to the exceptional circumstances of the case deportation would involve serious hardship of a personal nature 20 on the applicant, grant him a licence under this section.
(5) In granting a licence under this section, the Secretary of State may include in the licence the wife of the applicant and any child or children of his under the age of eighteen.
(6) A list of the persons to whom such licence is granted
25 together with a statement of the special grounds on which it is granted and of the exceptional circumstances (if any) under which it is granted shall, as soon as may be after the granting of the licence, be published in the Gazette.
(7) Any licence so granted may be at any time revoked by 30 the Secretary of State.
(8) If such licence is not granted or if, having been granted, it shall be revoked, the Secretary of State shall make an order (in this Act referred to as a deportation order) requiring the alien to leave the United Kingdom and thereafter to remain 35 out of the United Kingdom for a period of seven years after the passing of this Act. The Secretary of State may, by a deportation order, require the alien to return to the country of which he is a subject or citizen.
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9. (1) No former enemy alien shall for a period of two Admission 40 years after the passing of this Act be permitted to land in the of former
United Kingdom either from the sea or from the air, or to remain
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