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(4) So far as respects the duty on inhabited ho shall be construed with the substitution of the tw of May for the fifth day of April; and

(h) Shall not apply to the Metropolis as define tion (Metropolis) Act, 1800,

PART III-National Debt.

7-(1) The amount of the permanent annual National Debt under section one of the Sinking F shall, during the current financial year, be the a eight and a half million, instead of twenty-eight r and subsection (4) of section seven of the Finance as respects the current financial year, have effect a (3) Any sums paid into the Exchequer in any y of the China indemnity shall be issued and applied as the now sinking fund.

8-(1) The Acts specified in the Second Sch Ace are hereby repealed to the extent mentione column of that Schedule

(3) Part 1 of this Act so far as it relates to dut shall be construed together with the Customs Act, 1876, and the Acts amending that Act, and relates to duties of excise shall be construed toge Acts which relate to the duties of excise and the m those duties

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ACT of the British Parliament to continue the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1904.

[6 Edw. VII, c. 13.]

[20th July, 1906.]

Be it 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:

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1. The Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1904, shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December one thousand nine hundred and nine, and section six of that Act is hereby repealed.

2. This Act may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1906, and may be cited with the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1904.

ACT of the British Parliament to include Bribery amongst

[6 Edw. VII, c. 15.]

Extradition Crimes.

[4th August, 1906.]

WHEREAS & Convention § has been concluded between His Majesty and the President of the United States for including in the list of crimes on account of which extradition may be granted certain offences, and amongst others bribery :

And whereas it is provided by the said Convention that it

* Vol. XCIV, page 489.
Vol. XCVII, page 464,

† Vol. XCVII, page 6.
$ Vol. XCVIII, page 385.

shall come into force within ten days after publication in conformity with the laws of the high contracting parties:

And whereas bribery is not at present included in the list of crimes in the First Schedule to the Extradition Act, 1870,* and the said Convention cannot be published in conformity with the laws of the United Kingdom until bribery is so included :

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 :—

1. The Extradition Act, 1870, shall be construed as if bribery were included in the list of crimes in the First Schedule to that Act.

2. This Act may be cited as the Extradition Act, 1906; and the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1895, and this Act may be cited together as the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1906.

ACT of the British Parliament to amend the Law with respect to Marriages between British subjects and Foreigners.

[6 Edw. VII, c. 40.]

[29th November, 1906.]

BE it 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 :—

1.-(1) Any British subject who desires to be married in a foreign country to a foreigner according to the law of that country may, if it is desired for the purpose of complying with the requirement of the law of that country to obtain the certificate hereinafter mentioned, give notice of the marriage, if resident in the United Kingdom, to the registrar, and if resident abroad, to the marriage officer, and apply to the registrar or officer for a certificate that after proper notices have been given no legal impediment to the marriage has been shown to the registrar or officer to exist, and the registrar or officer shall, after the conditions set out in the Schedule to this Act have been complied with, give the certificate applied for unless the certificate is forbidden or a caveat is in operation as provided in that Schedule, or some legal impediment to the marriage is shown to the registrar or officer to exist.

(2) If a person-

(a.) Knowingly and wilfully makes a false oath or signs a false notice of marriage for the purpose of a certificate under this section; or

(b.) Forbids the granting of a certificate under this section by falsely representing himself to be a person who is authorised to forbid the certificate, knowing that representation to be false,

* Vol. LX, page 145.

that person shall be guilty of perjury, and if the offence is committed abroad, may be tried in any county or place in the United Kingdom in which the offender may be, and dealt with in the same manner in all respects as if the offence had been committed in that county or place.

(3) If any person enters a caveat on grounds which the registrar or officer or, in case of appeal, the Registrar-General declares to be frivolous, that person shall be liable to pay as a debt to the applicant for the certificate such sum as the registrar or officer or. in the case of appeal, the Registrar-General considers to be proper compensation for the damage caused to the applicant by the entering of the caveat.

(4) Such fees may be charged in respect of any notice of an intended marriage, or any application for or grant of a certificate, or the entering of a caveat under this section, as may be fixed, as respects certificates to be granted by or caveats entered with registrars, by the Registrar-General, with the consent of His Majesty in Council, and, as respects certificates to be granted by or caveats entered with a marriage officer, as may be fixed by Order under the Consular Salaries and Fees Act, 1891.*

2.-(1) Where arrangements have been made to the satisfaction of His Majesty with any foreign country for the issue by the proper officers of that country, in the case of persons subject to the marriage law of that country proposing to marry British subjects in the United Kingdom, of certificates that after proper notices have been given no impediment according to the law of that country has been shown to exist to the marriage His Majesty may, by Order in Council, make regulations-

(a.) Requiring any person, subject to the marriage law of that foreign country, who is to be married to a British subject in the United Kingdom, to give notice of the fact that he is subject to the marriage law of that country to the person by or in the presence of whom the marriage is to be solemnised; and

(b.) Forbidding any person to whom such a notice is given to solemnise the marriage or to allow it to be solemnised until such a certificate as aforesaid is produced to him.

(2.) If any person knowingly acts in contravention of, or fails to comply with, any such regulation, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.

(3.) Nothing in this section shall be taken to relate or have any reference to any marriages between two persons professing the Jewish religion solemnised according to the usages of the Jews in the presence of the secretary of a synagogue authorised by either the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836, or the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, or by the Marriage and Registration Act, 1856†, to register such a marriage, or of a deputy appointed by * 54 & 55 Vict., c. 36, Vol. LXXXIII, page 132.

† 6 & 7 Will. IV, c. 86; 7 & 8 Vict., c. 81; 19 & 20 Vict., c. 119.

such secretary by writing under his hand, and approved by the president for the time of the London committee of deputies of the British Jews by writing under his hand.

3. His Majesty may by Order in Council make general regulations prescribing the forms to be used under this Act and making such other provisions as seem necessary or expedient for the purposes of this Act, and may by Order in Council revoke, alter, or add to any Order in Council made under this Act.

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4. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-The expressions "Registrar-General" and "registrar' mean respectively the Registrar-General within the meaning of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836, and a superintendent registrar of marriages within the meaning of the Marriage Act, 1836; and

The expression "marriage officer" means a marriage officer for the time being under the Foreign Marriage Act, 1892,* and includes any person for the time being empowered to register a marriage under section eighteen of that Act.

5. In the application of this Act to Scotland

(1.) References to the forbidding of a certificate shall not apply;

(2.) A reference to a caveat shall be construed as a reference to an objection, and the provisions respecting the entry of a caveat on frivolous grounds shall not apply;

(3.) The expressions "Registrar-General" and "registrar mean respectively the Registrar-General of births, deaths, and marriages in Scotland, and the registrar of births, deaths, and marriages for a parish or district under the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Scotland) Act, 1854†, and the Acts amending that Act;

(4.) Paragraph (a.) of subsection one of section two shall be read as if the following words were inserted after the word "solemnised," namely, or to any registrar, law agent, or other person whom he desires to draw up any declaration of irregular marriage between him and a British subject"; and paragraph (b.) of the same subsection shall be read as if the following words were inserted after the word "solemnised," namely, effecting the said irregular marriage ";

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(5.) The duly appointed minister of a synagogue shall be substituted in subsection (3.) of section two for the secretary of the synagogue or deputy as described in that subsection.

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6. In the application of this Act to Ireland the expressions Registrar-General" and " registrar" mean respectively the Registrar-General and registrar within the meaning of the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844.

7. This Act may be cited as the Marriage with Foreigners Act, 1906.

* 55 & 56 Vict., c. 23, Vol. LXXXIV, page 253.

† 17 & 18 Vict., c. 80

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