Former Enemy Aliens (Disabilities Removal) Act 1925

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1925 c. 43


Former Enemy Aliens (Disabilities Removal) Act, 1925.

(15 & 16 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 43.

An Act to repeal certain enactments imposing disabilities on former enemy aliens.

[31st July 1925]

Whereas at London on the second day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, with a Protocol annexed thereto, was signed on behalf of His Majesty and the President of the German Reich:

And whereas the said Protocol contained the provision set forth in the First Schedule to this Act:

And whereas, in order to enable the said Treaty to be ratified, it is expedient that the disabilities referred to in the said provision should be removed as respects German citizens and German companies, and it is also expedient that, when the said disabilities are removed as respects German citizens and companies, they should also be removed as respects the subjects, citizens and companies of the other former enemy countries to which they apply:

Be it therefore 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:—

S-1 Repeal of certain enactments imposing disabilities on former enemy aliens.

1 Repeal of certain enactments imposing disabilities on former enemy aliens.

1. The enactments mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act which impose disabilities on subjects, citizens and companies of former enemy countries in respect of the non-ferrous metal industry, service on board British ships registered in the United Kingdom, and the carrying on of banking business within the United Kingdom, shall, as from the commencement of this Act, be repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule.

S-2 Short title, extent, and commencement.

2 Short title, extent, and commencement.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Former Enemy Aliens (Disabilities Removal) Act, 1925.

(2) This Act shall extend to Northern Ireland.

(3) This Act shall come into operation on such date as may be certified by a Secretary of State, by notice published in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes, to be the date on which ratifications of the said Treaty are exchanged.

S C H E D U L E S.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Provision of Protocol.

His Britannic Majesty's Government undertake to recommend to Parliament the necessary legislation for the removal of the disabilities imposed...

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