Old Age Pensions Act, 1908: With Notes, Together with the Statutory Regulations and Official Circulars Issued by the Local Government Boards of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and Financial Instructions of the Treasury

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David Owen Evans
Sweet & Maxwell, 1908 - Old age pensions - 224 pages
 

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Page 190 - Any person who by reason of his having been born within the dominions of Her Majesty is a natural-born subject, but who also at the time of his birth became under the law of any foreign State a subject of such State, and is still such subject, may, if of full age and not under any disability, make a declaration of alienage in manner aforesaid, and from nnd after the making of such declaration of alienage such person shall cease to be a British subject.
Page 40 - That the Father and Grandfather, and the Mother and Grandmother, and the Children of every poor, old, blind, lame, and impotent Person or other poor Person not able to work, being of a sufficient Ability, shall, at their own Charges, relieve and maintain every such poor Person...
Page 64 - Parliament as soon as may be after they are made, and, if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent forty days on which that house has sat...
Page 6 - If, before he becomes entitled to a pension, he has habitually failed to work according to his ability, opportunity, and need, for the maintenance or benefit of himself and those legally dependent upon him...
Page 194 - I, AB, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors according to law. So help me God!
Page 193 - Kingdom, with this qualification, that he shall not, when within the limits of the foreign state of which he was a subject previously to obtaining his certificate of naturalization, be deemed to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that state in pursuance of the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a treaty to that effect.
Page 194 - A married woman shall he deemed to be a subject of the state of which her husband is for the time being a subject...
Page 201 - An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of His Majesty King James the First, intituled ' An Act that all such as are to be naturalized or restored in blood shall first receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper and the oath of allegiance and the oath of supremacy.
Page 69 - Act, unless the contrary intention appears, — (a) Words importing the masculine gender shall include females ; and (b) Words in the singular shall include the plural, and words in the plural shall include the singular.
Page 70 - Where an Act passed after the commencement of this Act confers a power or imposes a duty on the holder of an office as such, then, unless the contrary intention appears, the power may be exercised and the duty shall be performed by the holder for the time being of the office.

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