NATURALISATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1745, 9 May 1913, Page 5

NATURALISATION.

PROPOSED BRITISH BILL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May G. In Uio House of Commons, Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, said ho hoped to introduce a Naturalisation Bill, in accordance with tho Imperial Conference's recommendation. [Tho Conference recommended—(l) That Imperial nationality should l>e world-wido and uniform, each Dominion remaining free to grant local certificates on its own lines; (2) that while Ihe Mother Countrv finds it necessary to retain the five years' qualifying perio'd, u live years' period anywhere within tho Empire should he equivalent to live years in the United Kingdom; (3) tile granting of' Imperial nntionalitv in every case to lie discretionary, this discretion to be exercised by those responsible in the area where the applicant spent the last twelve months; M) that the Imperial Act should bo so framed as to enable the Dominions to adopt it; (5) that nothing now proposed shall affect the validity or effectiveness of local laws regulating immigration or differentiating between any classes of British subjects.]