customs revenue of the Union on the average of the three years immediately preceding the year for which the contribution is made. 20. The King may disallow any law made by the Governor General in Council by proclamation for any territory within one year from the date of the proclamation, and such disallowance on being made known by the Governor General by proclamation shall annul the law from the day when the disallowance is so made known. 21. The members of the commission shall be entitled to such pensions of superannuation allowances as the Governor General in Council shall by proclamation provide, and the salaries and pensions of such members and all other expenses of the commission shall be borne by the territories in the proportion of their respective revenues. 22. The rights as existing at the date of transfer of officers of the public service employed in any territory shall remain in force. 23. Where any appeal may by law be made to the King in Council from any court of the territories, such appeal shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be made to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. 24. The Commission shall prepare an annual report on the territories, which shall, when approved by the Governor General in Council, be laid before both Houses of Parliament. 25. All bills to amend or alter the provisions of this Schedule shall be reserved for the significance of His Majesty's pleasure. HISTORICAL RÉSUMÉ By the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act of 1914 all of the Dominions were affected and the Dominions were recognized eo nomine for purposes of future legislation. BRITISH NATIONALITY AND STATUS OF ALIENS ACT [4 & 5 George V, cap. 17] 1914 An Act to consolidate and amend the Enactments relating to British nationality and the status of Aliens. BE 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: PART I.-Natural-born British Subjects 1.-(1) The following persons shall be deemed to be natural-born British subjects, namely: PART II.-Naturalization of Aliens 2.- -(1) The Secretary of State may grant a certificate of naturalization to an alien who makes an application for the purpose, and satisfies the Secretary of State 8. (1) The Government of any British possession shall have the same power to grant a certificate of naturalization as the Secretary of State has under this Act, and the provisions of this Act as to the grant and revocation of such a certificate shall apply accordingly, with the substitution of the Government of the possession for the Secretary of State, and the possession for the United Kingdom, and also, in a possession where any language is recognized as on an equality with the English language, with the substitution of the English language or that language for the English language: Provided that in any British possession other than British India and a Dominion specified in the First schedule to this Act, the powers of the government of the possession under this section shall be exercised by the Governor or a person acting under his authority, but shall be subject in each case to the approval of the Secretary of State, and any certificate proposed to be granted shall be submitted to him for his approval. (2) Any certificate of naturalization granted under this section shall have the same effect as a certificate of naturalization granted by the Secretary of State under this Act. 9.-(1) This part of this Act shall not, nor shall any certificate of naturalization granted thereunder, have effect within any of the Dominions specified in the first schedule to this Act, unless the Legislature of that Dominion adopts this part of this Act. (2) Where the Legislature of any such Dominion has adopted this part of this Act, the Government of the Dominion shall have the like powers to make regulations with respect to certificates of naturalization and to oaths of allegiance as are conferred by this Act on the Secretary of State. (3) The Legislature of any such Dominion which adopts this part of this Act may provide how and by what Department of the Government the powers conferred by this part of this Act on the Government of a British possession are to be exercised. (4) The Legislature of any such Dominion may at any |