(2.) In Jersey by the Lieutenant Governor: (3.) In Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the dependent islands by the Lieutenant Governor : (4.) In the Isle of Man by the Lieutenant Governor : (5.) In any British possession by the Governor. A copy of any warrant issued by a Secretary of State or by any officer authorised in pursuance of this Act to issue such warrant in Ireland, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man, shall be laid before Parliament. ralty. 27. An appeal may be had from any decision of a Court Appeal from of Admiralty under this Act to the same tribunal and in the Court of Admisame manner to and in which an appeal may be had in cases within the ordinary jurisdiction of the court as a Court of Admiralty. 28. Subject to the provisions of this Act providing for the Indemnity to award of damages in certain eases in respect of the seizure officers. or detention of a ship by the Court of Admiralty no damages shall be payable, and no officer or local authority shall be responsible, either civilly or criminally, in respect of the seizure or detention of any ship in pursuance of this Act. thority. 29. The Secretary of State shall not, nor shall the chief Indemnity to Secretary of executive authority, be responsible in any action or other state or chief legal proceedings whatsoever for any warrant issued by him executive auin pursuance of this Act, or be examinable as a witness, except at his own request, in any court of justice in respect of the circumstances which led to the issue of the warrant. Interpretation Clause. tion of terms. 30. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the Interpretafollowing terms have the meanings hereinafter respectively assigned to them; that is to say, "Foreign state" includes any foreign prince, colony, pro- "Foreign vince, or part of any province or people, or any person State." or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any foreign country, colony, province, or part of any province or people: "Military service" shall include military telegraphy and "Military any other employment whatever, in or in connexion with Service." any military operation: Service." "Naval service" shall, as respects a person, include ser- "Naval vice as a marine, employment as a pilot in piloting or directing "United Kingdom." "British possession." "The Secretary of State." " Governor." "Court of Admiralty." "Ship." "Building." "Equipping." directing the course of a ship of war or other ship, when such ship of war or other ship is being used in any military or naval operation, and any employment whatever on board a ship of war, transport, store ship, privateer, or ship under letters of marque; and, as respects a ship, include any user of a ship as a transport, store ship, privateer or ship under letters of marque: "United Kingdom" includes the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, and other adjacent islands: "British Possession" means any territory, colony, or place, being part of Her Majesty's Dominions and not part of the United Kingdom, as defined by this Act: "The Secretary of State" shall mean any one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State: "The Governor " shall, as respects India, mean the Governor General or the Governor of any Presidency, and where a British possession consists of several constituent colonies, mean the Governor General of the whole possession, or the Governor of any of the constituent colonies, and as respects any other British possession it shall mean the officer for the time/being administering the Government of such possession; also any person acting for or in the capacity of a Governor shall be included under the term "Governor": "Court of Admiralty" shall mean the High Court of Admiralty of England or Ireland, the Court of Session of Scotland, or any Vice-Admiralty Court within Her Majesty's Dominions: "Ship" shall include any description of boat, vessel, floating battery, or floating craft; also any description of boat, vessel, or other craft or battery, made to move either on the surface of or under water, or sometimes on the surface of and sometimes under water: "Building" in relation to a ship shall include the doing any act towards or incidental to the construction of a ship, and all words having relation to building shall be construed accordingly : 66 'Equipping" in relation to a ship shall include the furnishing a ship with any tackle, apparel, furniture, provisions, arms, munitions, or stores, or any other thing which is used in a ship for the purpose of fitting or adapting 66 66 adapting her for the sea or for naval service; and all 'Ship and equipment" shall include a ship and every- "Ship and thing in or belonging to a ship: equipment." "Master " shall include any person having the charge or "Master." command of a ship. Repeal of Acts and Saving Clauses. 31. From and after the commencement of this Act, an Repeal of foreign enlistAct passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of His late ment Act, 59 Majesty King George the Third, chapter sixty-nine, intituled G. 3, c. 69. "An Act to prevent the enlisting or engagement of His Majesty's subjects to serve in foreign service, and the fitting "out or equipping, in His Majesty's Dominions, vessels for "warlike purposes, without His Majesty's license," shall be repealed: Provided that such repeal shall not affect any penalty, forfeiture, or other punishment incurred or to be incurred in respect of any offence committed before this Act comes into operation, nor the institution of any investigation or legal proceeding, or any other remedy for enforcing any such penalty, forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid. commissioned foreign ships. 32. Nothing in this Act contained shall subject to for- saving as to feiture any commissioned ship of any foreign State, or give to any British court over or in respect of any ship entitled to recognition as a commissioned ship of any foreign State any jurisdiction which it would not have had if this Act had not passed. persons enter tary service in 33. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be con- Penalties not strued to extend to subject to any penalty any person who to extend to enters into the military service of any prince, State, or po- ing into militentate in Asia, with such leave or license as is for the time Asia-59 G. 3, being required by law in the case of subjects of Her Majesty, c. 69, s. 12, entering into the military service of princes, States, or potentates in Asia. 33 & 34 33 & 34 Vict., c. 14. Regulations as to oath of allegiance. Penalty on making false declaration. 33 & 34 VICT., c. 102-1870. An Act to amend the Law relating to the taking of oaths of Allegiance on Naturalization. W HEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the taking of oaths of allegiance under "The Naturalization Act, 1870 :" Be it enacted, by the Queen'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: : 1. The power of making regulations vested in one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State by The Naturalization Act, 1870," shall extend to prescribing as follows: (1.) The persons by whom the oaths of allegiance may be administered under that Act: (2.) Whether or not such oaths are to be subscribed as well as taken, and the form in which such taking and subscription are to be attested: (3.) The registration of such oaths: (4.) The persons by whom certified copies of such oaths may be given: (5.) The transmission to the United Kingdom, for the purpose of registration or safe keeping or of being produced as evidence, of any oaths taken in pursuance of the said Act out of the United Kingdom, or of any copies of such oaths, also of copies of entries of such oaths contained in any register kept out of the United Kingdom in pursuance of this Act: (6.) The proof in any legal proceedings of such oaths: (7.) With the consent of the Treasury, the imposition and application of fees in respect of the administration or registration of any such oath. The two last paragraphs in the eleventh section of the Naturalization Act, 1870, shall apply to regulations made under this Act. 2. Any person wilfully and corruptly making or subscribing any declaration under "The Naturalization Act, 1870," know ing the same to be untrue in any material particular, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding twelve months. and short title 3. This Act shall be termed the "Naturalization Oath Act, Construction 1870," and shall be construed as one with "The Naturaliza- of Act. tion Act, 1870," and may be cited together with that Act as the "Naturalization Acts, 1870." 34 & 35 VICT., c. 28-1871. An Act respecting the establishment of Provinces in the Dominion of Canada. WE THEREAS doubts have been entertained respecting the powers of the Parliament of Canada to establish Provinces in territories admitted, or which may hereafter be admitted into the Dominion of Canada, and to provide for the representation of such Provinces in the said Parliament, and it is expedient to remove such doubts, and to vest such powers in the said.Parliament: Be it enacted, by the Queen'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: 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The British short title. "North America Act, 1871." Canada may provide for the 2. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time Parliament of establish new Provinces in any territories forming for the establish new time being part of the Dominion of Canada, but not included Provinces and in any Province thereof, and may, at the time of such estab- constitution, lishment, make provision for the constitution and adminis- &c., theree. tration of any such Province, and for the passing of laws for the peace, order, and good government of such Province, and for its representation in the said Parliament. 3. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time, with Alteration of the consent of the Legislature of any Province of the said limits of ProDominion, increase, diminish, or otherwise alter the limits of vinces. |