The Strafford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1913. NATURALISATION LAW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 16, 19 September 1913, Page 4

The Strafford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1913. NATURALISATION LAW.

It is satisfactory to learn from statements published in the Home press that the British Government has secured the concurrence of the Governments of all the self-governing Dominions in a scheme which has for some time boon under .consideration, and which has for its object the establishment of uniformity in the application of the naturalisation laws of the Empire. Up to the present this question has been in a chaotic state, and although general agreement on the principle of a measure was arrived at last year, when the details came to be considered it was found that a direct conflict of views prevailed in Canada. Australia, and South Africa, fader the new scheme it is now stated that it will lie competent for a colony 10 have two standards of naturalisation, one which will qualify for local naturalisation, and the other J for Imperial recognition. What is eon-! sidered to lie adequate provision lias 1 boon made for the exclusion of undesirable persons from naturalisation, and this provision has the additional meril of relieving the self-governing I Dominions from anxiety as to the re-! suits of reciprocity in naturalisation 1 with the Crown colonies. On the difficult and much-discussed question of Imperial interference with the legislative powers of the self-governing 1 Dominions, it is now recognised by

the latter that if a certificate of naturalisation is to have effect hroughout the Dominions of the Bri;isll Crown this can only be effected 1 iy the intervention of tin 1 Imperial | 'arliament, A colonial legislature I •an legislate 'or its own territory only. ['lie new scheme, it is further stat- I >d, will give extra-territorial effect to! he 'aws passed by the local logisla-