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A.D. 1914.
Power of naturalized subjects to
divest them their status
selves of
in certain
cases.
Saving of obligations
incurred
before
loss of nationality.
Capacity of
alien as to
property.
Trial of alien.
Regulations
by Secretary
of State.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 22, 1915.
(2) Any person who though born out of His Majesty's dominions is a natural-born British subject may, if of full age and not under disability, make a declaration of alienage, and on making the declaration shall cease to be a British subject.
15. Where His Majesty has entered into a convention with any foreign state to the effect that the subjects or citizens of that state to whom certificates of naturalization have been granted may divest themselves of their status as such subjects, it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by Order in Council, to declare that the convention has been entered into by His Majesty; and from and after the date of the Order any person having been originally a subject or citizen of the state therein referred to, who has been naturalized as a British subject, may, within the limit of time provided in the convention, make a declaration of alienage, and on his making the declaration he shall be regarded as an alien and as a subject of the state to which he originally belonged as aforesaid.
16. Where any British subject ceases to be a British subject, he shall not thereby be discharged from any obligation, duty or liability in respect of any act done before he ceased to be a British subject.
Status of Alien.
17. Real and personal property of every description may be taken, acquired, held and disposed of by an alien in the same manner in all respects as by a natural-born British subject; and a title to real and personal property of every description may be derived through, from or in succession to an alien in the same manner in all respects as through, from or in succession to a natural- born British subject:
Provided that this section shall not operate so as to:-
(1) Confer any right on an alien to hold real property situate out of the
United Kingdom; or
(2) Qualify an alien for any office or for any municipal, parliamentary,
or other franchise; or
(3) Qualify an alien to be the owner of a British ship; or
(4) Entitle an alien to any right or privilege as a British subject, except such rights and privileges in respect of property as are hereby expressly given to him; or
(5) Affect any estate or interest in real or personal property to which any person has or may become entitled, either mediately or immediately, in possession or expectancy, in pursuance of any disposition made before the twelfth day of May eighteen hundred and seventy, or in pursuance of any devolution by law on the the death of any person dying before that day.
18. An alien shall be triable in the same manner as if he were a natural- born British subject.
Procedure and Evidence.
19.-(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations generally for carry- ing into effect the objects of this Act, and in particular with respect to the following matters :-
(a) The form and registration of certificates of naturalization granted by
the Secretary of State:
(b) The form and registration of declarations of alienage and declarations
of resumption or retention of British nationality:
(c) The registration by officers in the diplomatic or consular service of His Majesty of the births and deaths of British subjects born or dying out of His Majesty's dominions:
(d) The time within which the oath of allegiance is to be taken after the
grant of a certificate of naturalization:
(e) The persons by whom the oath of allegiance may be administered- and the persons before whom declarations of alienage and declara, tions of resumption of British nationality may be made:
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