Regulations by Governor entitled previously to the coming into 32. The Governor-General in Council in-Council as may by regulation provide for the following matters: to (p) (p). Some of the matters specified in this section appear to have been provided for in the Act itself with Schedule of Forms, and not wholly left to regulation by Order in Council; e. gr.: those matters specified in sub-sections 2, 3, 7 and 8. For other matters see Regulations in Appendix. Declaration. 1. The form and registration of declarations of British nationality ;* Registration. 2. The form and registration of certificates of naturalization in Canada ; Re-admission. Alienage. of evidence 3. The form and registration of certicates of re-admission to the British nationality within Canada; 4. The form and registration of declarations of alienage; † Transmission 5. The transmission to Canada for the for purposes purpose of registration or safe keeping, or of this Act. of being produced as evidence of any declarations or certificates made in pursu ance of this Act, out of Canada, or of any * To be registered in the office of the Secretary of State of Canada. See Regulations in Appendix. † Ibid. copies of such declarations or certificates, also of copies of entries contained in any register kept out of Canada in pursuance of or for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act; tration. 6. With the consent of the Treasury Fees on regisBoard, the imposition and application of fees in respect of any registration authorized to be made by this Act, and in respect of the making any declaration or the grant of any certificate authorized to be made or granted by this Act; * 7. The persons by whom the oaths may Oaths. be administered under this Act; 8. Whether or not such oaths are to be Subscription subscribed as well as taken, and the form in which such taking and subscription are to be attested; 9. The registration of such oaths; of oaths. Registration. 10. The persons by whom certified Copies. copies of such oaths may be given; II. The transmission to Canada for Transmission of oaths, &c., the purpose of registration or safe keeping, taken out of or of being produced as evidence, of any oaths taken in pursuance of this Act out * See Table of Fees in Appendix. Canada. Proof. Fees. Repealing or altering re of Canada, or of any copies of such oaths, also of copies of entries of such oaths contained in any register kept out of Canada in pursuance of this Act; 12. The proof, in any legal proceeding, of such oaths; 13. With the consent of the Treasury Board, the imposition and application of fees in respect of the administration or registration of any such oath.* The Governor-General in Council, by gulations. a further regulation, may repeal, alter or add to any regulation previously made by him in pursuance of this section. Any Presumption regulation made by the Governor-General as to regula- in Council in pursuance of this section shall be deemed to be within the powers conferred by this Act, and shall be of the same force as if it had been enacted in this Act. tions. Proof of declarations. 33. Any declaration authorized to be made under this Act may be proved in any legal proceeding by the production of the original declaration, or of any copy thereof certified to be a true copy by the Clerk or acting clerk of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, or by any person * See Table of Fees in Appendix. authorized by regulations of the GovernorGeneral in Council to give certified copies of such declaration; and the production. of such declaration or copy shall be evidence of the person therein named as declarant having made the same at the date in the said declaration mentioned. tificates. 34. A certificate of naturalization, or of Proof of cerre-admission to British nationality, may be proved in any legal proceeding by the production of the original certificate, or of any copy thereof certified to be a true copy by the Clerk or acting clerk of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, or by any person authorized by regulations of the Governor-General in Council to give certified copies of such certificate; and the statement of the period of residence or service in a certificate of naturalization shall be sufficient evidence of such residence or service in all courts and places whatsoever. entries of 35. Entries in any register authorized Proof of to be made in pursuance of this Act may registration. be proved by such copies and certified in such manner as may be directed by regulation of the Governor-in-Council, by the Clerk or acting clerk of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, or by the Secretary Application of a certain Act of this session. of State; and the copies of such entries shall be evidence of any matters by this Act or by any regulation of the Governor in Council authorized to be inserted in the register. 36. Any Act passed during the present session touching documentary evidence, shall apply to any regulation made by the Governor-General in Council, in pursuance of or for the purpose of carrying into effect any of the provisions of this Act.* As to acts done before naturalization. As to aliens naturalized in any part of Canada before this Act. MISCELLANEOUS. 37. Where any British subject has, in pursuance of this Act, become an alien, he shall not thereby be discharged from any liability in respect of any acts done before the date of his so becoming an alien. 38. Each and every person who, being by birth an alien, had, on or before the coming into force of this Act, become entitled to the privileges of British birth, within any part of Canada, by virtue of any general or special Act of Naturalization in force in such part of Canada, shall * See the Act to amend the law respecting documentary evidence in certain cases, 44 Vict. cap. 28. (Can.) |