Commonwealth legislation

Naturalization Regulations 1916 (Provisional)

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

104 of 1916

Collection

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A 1916 provisional regulation under the Naturalization Act 1903 sets fees of two shillings and sixpence (half a crown) for searches of naturalization records and for certified copies of naturalization certificates. It affected migrants who needed to prove British-subject status during World War I.

Issued without normal notice, the fees mattered for military service, government employment and avoiding internment — a wartime administrative step to manage identity and loyalty.

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Naturalization Regulations 1916 (Provisional)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 104.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATURALIZATION ACT 1903.

I, SIR ARTHUR STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies, in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Naturalization Act 1903 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. RUSSELL,

for Minister for External Affairs.

Naturalization Regulations 1916.

Short Title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the “Naturalization Regulations 1916.”

Fee for Search.

2. Any person may, on application at the office of the Department of External Affairs, have a search made in any records of certificates of naturalization in its custody upon payment of a fee of Two shillings and sixpence for each search.

Fee for Certified Copy.

3. Certified copies of any certificate of naturalization recorded in the Department of External Affairs may be obtained by any person on payment of a fee of Two shillings and sixpence for each certified copy.

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.6151.—Price 3d.

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1 Naturalization Regulations 1916 (Provisional)