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Aliens Restriction.
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the war, dealing comprehensively with the landing and embarking of aliens in the United Kingdom, the delimitation of prohibited areas, and the registration of aliens, and imposing generally from time to time such restrictions on the movements and behaviour of aliens as have seemed necessary. It is proposed by the present Bill that this power of making Orders in Council should, during a period of two years from the passing of the present Bill, be made available for exercise at any time. The Bill, however, provides that if orders are made which are to operate at a time when there is no war or special emergency, they shall be laid on the table of both Houses, with a right to petition for their annulment in whole or in part.
The Bill further extends the power of making Orders in Council in order to meet necessities which have arisen, and in particular in order to enable aliens who have been interned as prisoners of war to be kept in custody until six months after the declaration of peace, and to enable the existing information as to enemy property to be supplemented where necessary and made as complete as possible.
The Bill also contains a clause rendering aliens who attempt to cause sedition or disaffection liable to a severer punishment than British subjects guilty of similar proceedings, and imposing a penalty in certain cases on aliens who promote industrial
unrest.
Various other clauses imposing further statutory restrictions on aliens, and, in particular, on former enemy aliens, were inserted in committee.
The provisions of the Aliens Act of 1905 will be covered so far as necessary by Orders in Council made under the Bill and the Bill accordingly provides for the repeal of that Act,
Sertion.
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Aliens Restriction Bill.
[AS AMENDED IN STANDING COMMITTEE A.]
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
Continuance and Extension of Emergency Powers. Continuance of emergency powers.
Extension of powers.
Further Restrictions on Aliens.
3. Incitement to sedition, &c.
1. Pilotage certificates.
5. Employment of aliens in ships of the mercantile marine.
6. Appointment of aliens to the Civil Service.
7. Restriction of change of name by aliens.
Special Provisions as to former Enemy Aliens,
8. Deportation of former enemy aliens.
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Admission of former enemy aliens.
10. Employment of former enemy aliens on British ships.
11, Offences and penalties.
General.
12. Saving for diplomatic persons, &c.
Definitions.
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14. Short title and repeal.
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