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Revocation of certificate

No. 44 of 1902.

NATURALIZATION.

7. The Governor may revoke any certificate of naturaliza- of naturaliza- tion which may have been granted to any alien if he shall be satisfied that such certificate was obtained by mis- representation; and thereupon such certificate of naturaliza- tion shall become null and void.

tion.

Fee.

Oath.

Ordinance

A notification of the revocation of any certificate of naturalization shall be published in the Gazette.

8. There shall be paid for every certificate of naturalization and before the issue thereof such fee as the Governor in Council may direct.

[s. 9, rep. No. 1 of 1912.]

10.-(1) An alien on naturalization shall take the oath of allegiance in the form provided in the Promissory Oaths No. 1 of 1869. Ordinance, 1869, and the same shall be tendered by the Clerk of Councils in the presence of the Colonial Secretary.

* The term must not be less than five

years.

(2) If an alien who has applied for a certificate of naturalization declines or neglects to take the oath of allegiance when duly tendered, he shall be disqualified from obtaining the said certificate, and if the same has already been granted, it shall become ipso facto void.

[(3), rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]

SCHEDULE.

FORM OF Certificate OF NATURALIZATION,

The Naturalization Ordinance, 1902. Governor.

By His Excellency...

WHEREAS

of........

a subject of...................

[s. 3]

Governor of Hongkong.

has applied to me for a Certificate of Naturalization as a British subject :

AND whereas the said

has satisfied me that he has before making such application continuously resided in Hongkong (or been in the service of the Crown) for the spice of ............years, and that he intends if naturalized to reside permanently in Hongkong:

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For the fee directed see Hodgson's Regulations of Hongkong, 1914, p. 403. As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.