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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 22, 1915.

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(f) Whether or not oaths of allegiance are to be subscribed as well as A.D. 1914.

taken, and the form in which the taking and subscription are to be attested:

(g) The registration of oaths of allegiance:

(h) The persons by whom certified copies of oaths of allegiance may be given; and the proof in any legal proceeding of any such oaths. (2) The transmission to the United Kingdom, for the purpose of registra- tion or safe keeping or of being produced as evidence of any declarations, certificates or oaths, made, granted or taken out of the United Kingdom in pursuance of this Act or of any Act hereby repealed, or of any copies thereof, also of copies of entries contained in any register kept out of the United Kingdom in pursuance of this Act or any Act hereby repealed:

(5) With the consent of the Treasury, the imposition and application of fees in respect of any registration authorised to be made by this Act or any Act hereby repealed, and in respect of the making of any declaration or the grant of any certificate authorised to be made or granted by this Act or any Act hereby repealed, and in respect of the adminis- tration or registration of any oath: Provided that in the case of a woman who was a British subject previously to her marriage to an alien, and whose husband has died or whose marriage has been dissolved, the fee for the grant of a certificate shall not exceed five shillings.

(2) Any regulation made by the Secretary of State in pursuance of this Act shall be of the same force as if it had been enacted therein, but shall not, so far as respects the imposition of fees, be in force in any British Possession, and shall not, so far as respects any other matter, be in force in any British Possession in which any Act or ordinance, or, in the case of a Dominion specified in the First Schedule to this Act, any regulation made by the Government of the Dominion under Part II. of this Act, to the contrary of, or inconsistent with, any such regulation may for the time being be in force.

(3) Any regulations made by the Secretary of State under any Act hereby repealed shall continue in force and be deemed to have been made under this Act.

20. Any declaration made under this Act or under any Act hereby repealed Evidence of may be proved in any legal proceeding by the production of the original declar- declarations. ation or of any copy thereof certified to be a true copy by the Secretary of State, or by any person authorised by him in that behalf, and the production of the declaration or copy shall be evidence of the person therein named as declarant having made the declaration at the date therein mentioned.

naturaliza-

21. A certificate of naturalization may be proved in any legal proceeding Evidence of by the production of the original certificate or of any copy thereof certified to certificates of be a true copy by the Secretary of State or by any person authorised by him in tion. that behalf.

entries in

registers.

22. Entries in any register made in pursuance of this Act or under any Evidence of Act hereby repealed may be proved by such copies and certified in such manner as may be directed by the Secretary of State, and the copies of any such entries shall be evidence of any matters, by this Act or by any Act hereby repealed or by any regulation of the Secretary of State, authorised to be inserted in the register.

false repre-

23. If any person for any of the purposes of this Act knowingly makes Penalty for any false representation or any statement false in a material particular, he shall, sentation or in the United Kingdom, be liable on summary conviction in respect of each statement. offence to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding three months.

24. The oath of allegiance shall be in the form set out in the Second Form of Schedule to this Act.

oath of allegiance.

Supplemental.

25. Nothing in this Act shall affect the grant of letters of denization by Saving for His Majesty.

letters of denization.