CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928 — Page 39

No. 9 of

1901.

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(7) A notification of the revocation of any certificate of naturalization shall be published in the gazette.

(8) When a certificate of naturalization is revoked the former holder thereof shall be regarded as an alien and as a subject of the state to which he belonged at the time when the certificate was granted.

(9) It shall be lawful for the Governor, for any reason which would entitle him to revoke a certificate of naturalization granted at any time whatsoever under this Ordinance, to order that any person naturalized as a British subject within the Colony whose name appears in the Schedule to the Naturalized Ordinance Persons Ordinance, 1901, shall cease to be a naturalized British subject within the Colony: provided that no such order shall be made until an inquiry has been held by a commit- tee constituted in accordance with the provi- sions of sub-section (4) and such committee shall have recommended to the Governor that such order should be made. Every order made under this sub-section shall be pub- lished in the gazette and the person to whom such order applies shall cease to be a natural- ized British subject within the Colony from the date of the publication of such order in the gazette.

3. The Naturalization Ordinance, 1902, is amended Insertion of by the insertion of the following section immediately new section 9 after section 8:-

Loss of

naturaliza-

tion rights

upon foreign naturaliza- tion.

9.-(1) A person who has obtained a cer- local tificate of naturalization within the Colony under this Ordinance, or whose name appears in the Schedule to the Naturalized Persons Ordinance, 1901, 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 henceforth be deemed to have 4 & 5 Geo. 5, ceased to be a naturalized British subject c. 17, s. 13. within the Colony.

Ordinance No. 9 of 1901.

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(2) When

certificate of naturalization within the Colony is deemed to have ceased to be a British subject within the Colony, his certifi cate shall thereupon be given up and can- celled, 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.

any person who has been granted

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 15th day of March, 1928.

in Ordinance No. 44 of 1902.

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D. W. TRATMAN,

Clerk of Councils.