Naturalization Act 1853 No 8a (NSW)

No. VIII.

WHEREAS an Act of Council was passed in the eleventh year of Her present Majesty's reign to amend the laws relating to	Aliens within the Colony of New South Wales by the eighth section
whereof it is enacted that the oath thereby required to be taken shall be taken and subscribed and shall be duly administered before one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the said Colony and that the Judge before whom such oath may be administered shall grant a certificate to be signed by such Judge of the said oath having been taken and subscribed And whereas it has been found that such enact­
ment is inconvenient in practice And whereas it is expedient to alter
the terms of the said oath Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows that is to say—
1. So much of the eighth section of the said recited Act as contains the enactment hereinbefore mentioned shall be and the same
is hereby repealed.

An Act to amend the Act relating to the

Naturalization of Aliens. [8th July, 1853.]

2. After the passing of this Act the oath required to be taken by Aliens to whom any of the rights and capacities of a natural born British subject within this Colony shall be granted shall be in the following form—

" I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful " and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria " as lawful Sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great " Britain and Ireland and of this Colony of New South " Wales dependent on and belonging to the said United " Kingdom and that I will defend Her to the utmost of " my power against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts " whatever which shall be made against Her Person " Crown and Dignity and that I will do my utmost " endeavour to make known to Her Majesty Her Heirs and " Successors all treasons and traitorous conspiracies and " attempts which I shall know to be against Her or any

" of Them	So help me God.
" Taken and subscribed the	day of

" 18 before

3. Such oath shall and may be administered and taken either by and before one of the Judges of the Supreme Court or by and before any Police Magistrate or any Bench of Magistrates assembled in Petty Sessions or by and before any person to whom one of the Judges of the said Supreme Court shall have deputed authority to administer such oath (as the said Judges are respectively hereby empowered to do) and thereupon the Judge Police Magistrate Bench of Magistrates or deputed person before whom such oath shall have been so taken shall sign and deliver to the party taking the same a certificate of the same having been so taken and subscribed by him and shall forthwith transmit the said oath to the Prothonotary of the Supreme Court for the purpose of being kept amongst the Records of the said Court.