Definitions.

Repeal, short title, and com

27. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

The expression "British subject" means a person who
is a natural-born British subject, or a person to whom
a certificate of naturalization has been granted:
The expression "alien" means a person who is not a
British subject:

The expression "certificate of naturalization" means a
certificate of naturalization granted under this Act
or under any Act repealed by this or any other Act:
The expression disability" means the status of
being a married woman, or a minor, lunatic, or
idiot:

The expression "territorial waters" includes any port, harbour, or dock.

(2) Where in pursuance of this Act the name of a child is included in a certificate of naturalization granted to his parent, such child shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a person to whom a certificate of naturalization has been granted.

28. (1) The enactments mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mencement. specified in the third column of that schedule.

(2) This Act may be cited as the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914.

(3) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January nineteen hundred and fifteen.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LIST OF DOMINIONS.

The Dominion of Canada.

The Commonwealth of Australia (including for the purposes of this Act the territory of Papua and Norfolk Island).

The Dominion of New Zealand.

The Union of South Africa.

Newfoundland.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.

"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."

Sections 8, 9, 19.

Section 24.

25 Edw. 3 stat. 1. Statute for those who are From "and in the right of other chil

born in parts beyond

the seas.

dren" to the end of the statute.

42 Edw. 3. c. 10. A statute made at West-The whole chapter.

minster on the first

day of May in the

forty-second year of
King Edward 1II.

12-13 Will. 3. c. 2. The Act of Settlement.. In section three the words "naturalized or."

7 Anne c. 5....... The Foreign Protestants The whole Act.

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CHAP. 26.

An Act to enable Food, Forage, and Stores for His Majesty's Forces to be requisitioned in cases of emergency.

BE

[7th August, 1914.]

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

of section

forage, and

1. The power of requisitioning carriages, horses, vessels, Extension and aircraft in case of emergency conferred by the Army 115 of Army Act shall extend so as to include a power of requisitioning Act to food, food, forage, and stores of all descriptions, and, accordingly, stores. at the end of subsection (2) of section one hundred and fifteen of the Army Act there shall be inserted the words "and also of food, forage, and stores of every description," and all the other provisions of that section and also the provisions of sections thirty-one, one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and nineteen, and one hundred and twenty-one of the Army Act shall, so far as applicable, apply in relation to food, forage, and stores as they apply in relation to vessels.

2. This Act may be cited as the Army (Supply of Food, Short title. Forage, and Stores) Act, 1914.

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to the King's most Excellent Majesty.