THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 3, 1919.
(2) No certificate of naturalization shall, before the expiration of a period of ten years after the termination of the present war, be granted in the United Kingdom to any subject of a country which at the time of the passing of this Act was at war with His Majesty, but this provision shall not apply to a person who-
(a) has served in His Majesty's forces or in the forces of any of His Majesty's Allies or of any country acting in naval or military co-operation with His Majesty; or
(b) is a member of a race or community known to be opposed to the
enemy governments; or
(c) was at birth a British subject.
and printing.
4.-(1) This Act may be cited as the British Nationality and Status of Short title Aliens Act, 1918, and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1918.
(2) Every enactment and word which is directed by this Act to be sub- stituted for or added to any portion of the principal Act shall form part of that Act in the place assigned to it by this Act; and the principal Act, and any enactments referring thereto, shall after the commencement of this Act be con- strued as if that enactment or word had been originally enacted in the prin- cipal Act in the place so assigned, and, where it is substituted for another enactment or word, had been so enacted in lieu of that enactment or word, and the expression "this Act" in the principal Act or this Act shall be construed accordingly.
(3) A copy of the principal Act with every such euactment and word inserted in the place so assigned shall be prepared and certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments and deposited with the rolls of Parliament, and His Majesty's printer shall print in accordance with the copy so certified all copies of the principal Act which are printed after the commencement of this Act.
NOTE. The principal Act will be found in Notification No. 16 of the 22nd January, 1915, and at page 1 of the 1915 volume of Orders in Council.
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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 2.--His Excellency the Officer Administering the Governmcut in Council has been pleased to direct, under Section 7 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, that the name of Mr. WILLIAM THOM be added to the List of Authorized Architects published in Government Notification No. 155 of the 26th April, 1918.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
A. D. BALL,
Clerk of Councils.
3rd January, 1919.
No. 3.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 12.
TUESDAY, 10TH DECEMBER, 1918.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT
(Mr. CLAUD SEVERN, C.M.G.).
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (ARTHUR GEORGE MURCHISON FLETCHER).
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the Attorney General, (JOSEPH HORSFORD KEMP, K.C., C.B.E.).
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