THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 28, 1915.
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I, A.B., swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty, King George the Fifth, His Heirs and Successors, according to law.
Made and subscribed this
day of
(Signed) A.B.,
before me,
XY.,
[Justice of the Peace, Commissioner, or other official title].
(3) The oath of allegiance sworn, subscribed and attested as herein directed shall in every case be endorsed on the certificate of naturalization to which it relates.
(4) 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 authorized by him in that behalf or, where the oath has been administered in a British Possession, by the Governor of the Possession.
Time within which Oath of Allegiance to be taken.
12. The oath of allegiance shall be taken within one calendar month after the date of the certificate of naturalization to which it relates, or, in any case where the Secretary of State grants an extension of time, within such extended time as the Secretary of State may direct, and if the oath is not so taken the certificate shall be void.
Persons before whom Declaration may be made.
13. The persons before whom declarations of alienage and declarations of resump- tion or retention of British nationality may be made, shall be the same as the persons by whom the oath of allegiance may be administered.
Fees.
14. 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.
TABLE OF FEES.
The matter in which the Fee may be taken.
The grant of a certificate of naturalization to a woman who was a British subject previously to her marriage to an alien and whose hus- band has died, or whose marriage has been dissolved, and the registration of the certificate and the oath of allegiance in respect thereof.
The grant of a certificate of naturalization in other cases, and the registration of the certi- ficate and the oath of allegiance in respect thereof.
Taking a declaration of alienage or of retention
or resumption of British nationality.
Administering the oath of allegiance.
The Amount of the Fee.
To whom payment of the Fee to be made.
£ s. d.
0 50
Into the Exchequer in accordance
with Treasury directions.
3 00
The same.
0 26
The registration of a declaration of alienage or of retention or resumption of British nation- ality.
0 10 0
In England or Ireland if the declara- tion is taken or the oath adminis- tered by a justice of the peace, to the clerk to the justices, and if by a Commissioner to the Commis- sioner.
In Scotland if the declaration is taken or oath administered 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.
Into the Exchequer in accordance
with Treasury directions.
Certified copy of any declaration or certificate
with or without oath.
0.10 0
The same.
Of the fee of £3 payable in respect of the grant of a certificate of naturalization, £1 shall be payable on the submission of the application for a certificate, and shall in no circumstances be returned; the remaining £2 shall be payable on the receipt of the decision to grant a certificate.
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