2. Offences against the British Nationality Act, 1948.

966 Cap. 83] British Nationality CHAPTER 83. BRITISH NATIONALITY. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. SECTION.

CHAPTER 83. BRITISH NATIONALITY. 23 of 1949. An Ordinance to make provision for purposes connected with the application of the British Nationality Act, 1948, to Sierra Leone. Short title and application. Offences against the British Nationalitv Act, 1948: Regulations relating to fees. [31ST DECEMBER, 1949.) 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the British Nationality Ordinance, and shall apply to the Colony and Protectorate. 2. (I) Any person who for the purpose of procuring anything to be done or not to be done under the British Nationality Act, 1948, as it applies to Sierra Leone, makes any statement which he knows to be false in a material particular, or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular, shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months. (2) Any person who fails to comply with any requirement imposed on him by regulations made under the said Act with respect to the delivering up of certificates of naturalisation shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds. 3. The Governor may make regulations for the imposition and recovery of fees in respect of any application made to the Governor under the British Nationality Act, 1948, or in respect of any registration, or the making of any declaration, or the grant of any certificate, or the taking of any oath of allegiance, authorised to be made, granted or taken by or under the said Act, and in respect of supplying a certified or other copy of any notice, certificate, order, declaration or entry, given, granted or made as aforesaid.