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Insertion of

No. 9 of 1901.

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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 by the insertion of the following section immediately in Ordinance after section 8 :—

new section

No. 44 of

1902.

Loss of local naturaliza-

tion rights

upon

foreign

naturaliza- tion.

9. (1) A person who has obtained a cer- 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 Ordinanco 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.

No. 9 of 1901.

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(2) When any person who has been granted a 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.

Objects and Reasons.

1. One object of this bill is to apply to local natural- ization the powers of revocation which exist with regard to imperial naturalization. Put shortly, the chief cases in which revocation will be possible are the following:-

(a) where naturalization was obtained by fraud, or false representation, or concealment of material circumstances;

() where the person in question has shown him-

self disloyal to His Majesty ;

(c) where the person in question trades with the enemy, or adheres to the enemy, in any war in which His Majesty is engaged;

(d) where he has ceased to reside permanently in

the Colony ;

(e) where he is sentenced by any court in His Majesty's dominions to imprisonment for twelve months or to penal servitude or to a fine of one thousand dollars or one hundred pounds.