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STATUS OF ALIENS ACT 1914

STATUS OF ALIENS ACT 1914 - LONG TITLE

An Act to consolidate and amend the Enactments relating to British
Nationality and the Status of Aliens.
[7th August 1914]
Part I (s.1) and Part II (ss.29) rep. by 1948 c.56 s.34 sch.4
Pt.II

Ss.1016 rep. by 1948 c.56 s.34 sch.4 Pt.II

Capacity of alien as to property.

STATUS OF ALIENS ACT 1914 - SECT 17

17. Real and personal property of every description may be taken,
acquired, held and disposed of by an alien in the same manner in
all respects as by a... British subject; and a title to real and
personal property of every description may be derived through, from
or in succession to an alien in the same manner in all respects
as through, from or in succession to a... British subject:

Provided that this section shall not operate so as to

(1)confer any right on an alien to hold real property situate out
of the United Kingdom; or

(2)qualify an alien for any office or for any municipal,
parliamentary, or other franchise; or

(3)qualify an alien to be the owner of a British ship; or

(4)entitle an alien to any right or privilege as a British subject,
except such rights and privileges in respect of property as are
hereby expressly given to him; or

(5)affect any estate or interest in real or personal property to
which any person has or may become entitled, either mediately or
immediately, in possession or expectancy, in pursuance of any
disposition made before the twelfth day of May, eighteen hundred and
seventy, or in pursuance of any devolution by law on the death of
any person dying before that day.

STATUS OF ALIENS ACT 1914 - SECT 18
Trial of alien.

18. An alien shall be triable in the same manner as if he were
a... British subject.

Ss.1924 rep. by 1948 c.56 s.34 sch.4 Pt.II

Ss.25, 26 rep. by 1948 c.56 s.34 sch.4 Pt.II

STATUS OF ALIENS ACT 1914 - SECT 27
Definitions.

27.(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

Definition rep. by 1948 c.56 s.34 sch.4 Pt.II

The expression "alien" means a person who is not a British subject:

Definitions rep. by 1948 c.56 s.34 sch.4 Pt.II

Short title.

STATUS OF ALIENS ACT 1914 - SECT 28

28.Subs.(1) rep. by SLR 1927

(2) This Act may be cited as the... Status of Aliens Act, 1914.

Subs.(3) rep. by SLR 1927

Schedules rep. by 1948 c.56 s.34 sch.4 Pt.II