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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 13, 1934.

Proof of oath of allegiance.

Persons before whom de- clarations

may be

made,

Registration of declara- tions.

Fees.

relating to any such certificate, shall be registered both in London at the Home Office and in the Possession at such place as the Governor of the Possession may direct.

15. The oath of allegiance may be proved in any legal proceedings by the production of the original certificate or any copy thereof certified to be a true copy by the Secretary of State or by any person authorised by him in that behalf or, where the oath has been administered in 8 British Possession, by the Governor of the Possession.

16. The persons before whom declarations of alienage and declarations of retention, acquisition or resumption of British nationality may be made, shall be the same as the persons by whom the oath of allegiance may be administered.

17.—(1) Every declaration of alienage and declaration of retention, acquisition or resumption of British nationality, wherever made, shall be registered in London at the Home Office.

(2) Every such declaration made in a British Possession, other than British India or a Dominion specified in the First Schedule to the Act, shall also be registered at such place in the Possession as the Governor of the Possession may direct.

18. The following fees, to which the consent of the Treasury has been obtained, may be taken and shall be applied in the manner hereinafter shown; but this regulation shall not be in force in any British Possession.

The matter in which the Fee may be taken.

TABLE OF FEES.

The Amount of the Fee.

To whom payment of the Fee is to be made.

£

S. d.

0

5 0

to

а

The grant of a certificate

of naturalization woman who was а British subject previous- ly to her marriage to an alien, and the registra- tion of the certificate and the oath of allegi- ance in respect thereof.

The grant of a certificate 10 0 0

of naturalization in other! cases, and the registra- tion of the certificate and the oath of allegi- ance in respect thereof.

Taking

a declaration of alienage or of retention! or resumption of British nationality. Administering the oath of

allegiance.

0 2 6

Into the Exchequer in ac- cordance with Treasury directions.

The same.

In England or Northern Ireland if the declaration is taken or the oath ad- ministered by a justice of the peace, to the clerk to the justices, and if by a Commissioner. to the Commissioner.

In Scotland if the declara- tion is taken or oath ad- ministered by a sheriff or sheriff-substitute, to the sheriff clerk, or to any of his deputes; if by a justice of the peace, to the clerk of the peace or to any of his deputes.

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