made to the Board of Trade in writing, and shall be accompanied by Form 1, in the Schedule hereto, which shall contain the information specified therein. The application shall be signed by the individual or a partner in the firm, or a director of the company making the application. The Board of Trade may call for such further and other information as they may require.

6. The Board of Trade shall not refuse to grant a licence to a company, firm or individual to which any of the conditions set forth in the First Schedule of the Act apply, or which is controlled by a company, firm or individual in respect of which any such conditions apply, nor shall they revoke or suspend a licence without giving notice in writing to the applicant or holder of a licence, as the case may be, that he may within twenty-one days apply to the Board to be heard in support of his application for a licence or to show cause why his licence should not be revoked or suspended. Any person to whom such notice is given, and who desires to be so heard, shall, within fourteen days from the date of the notice send to the Board of Trade a notice of application for hearing in Form 2A or 2в of the Schedule. Such application shall be accompanied by a statement of the grounds upon which the applicant claims that a licence should be granted to him or that his licence should not be revoked or suspended. Such statement shall be signed by the individual or a partner in the firm or a director of the company making the application. The Board of Trade may, in any particular case, require such statement to be verified by a statutory declaration.

7. The Board of Trade may call for such further particulars of the grounds given in such application and for such documents as they may require, and may postpone the hearing of such application till such particulars or documents are furnished.

8. The Board of Trade may hear the application in such manner as they shall deem expedient, and by such persons as they shall appoint for that purpose.

9. The Board of Trade shall consider the facts found at such hearing and shall communicate their decision to the applicant in writing.

10. The time prescribed in those rules for doing any act thereunder may be enlarged by the Board of Trade on such terms as they may direct, and such enlargement may be granted though the time has expired for doing such act.

11. The name of any company, firm or individual to whom a licence has been granted under the Act, or whose licence has been suspended or revoked, shall be published as soon as practicable in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazettes,

as the Board of Trade may think fit, and in the "Board of Trade Journal.'

12. An order of the Board of Trade, applying the Act to any non-ferrous metals and ores not mentioned in the Act shall be published in the London, Edinburgh and Dublin Gazettes, and in the "Board of Trade Journal" at least one month before it comes into effect.

W. F. MARWOOD,

A Secretary to the Board of Trade.

Approved, so far as relating to fees

(For the Lords Commissioners
of His Majesty's Treasury),

JAMES PARKER.
J. W. PRATT.

Board of Trade,

7, Whitehall Gardens,

London, S.W. 1.

SCHEDULE.

Form 1.

THE NON-FERROUS METAL INDUSTRY ACT, 1918." Particulars to be furnished with an Application for a Licence. 1. Name and address of company, firm or individual applying for a licence.

2. Date of registration of company, or business by firm or individual.

commencement of

3. In the case of a company, the issued capital, with particulars of any different classes of shares and the rights attached thereto. and showing whether any bearer shares or debentures have been issued.

4. Nature of the business carried on or proposed to be carried on by the company, firm or individual.

5. List of all places where the business is carried on and of all branches and agencies outside the United Kingdom.

6. The full Christian names, surnames and nationality of the individual, of each partner in the firm, or of the directors of the company, as the case may be, and of the managers or other principal officers, and of all persons who have been partners. directors, managers or principal officers since the 1st August, 1914. with the dates of becoming and ceasing to be partner, director, manager or principal officer.

7. In the event of there having been any change of name or nationality of any person mentioned in paragraph 6, the former Christian name or names, surname, nationality of origin, and any intermediate nationality of such person, together with the date of change.

8. In the case of a company, the number of shareholders, with particulars of the capital held by each of the five largest sharebolders, showing their address and present and any previous Christian names and surnames, and present and previous

nationality.

9. In the case of an individual firm or company, particulars of any capital securities or advance held or made by or on behalf of an enemy.

10. Particulars of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the applicant and any enemy or agent for an enemy which has been in operation since the 12th November, 1917.

11. Particulars of any interest by or on behalf of the applicant at any time since the 12th November, 1917, in any undertaking, whether or not in the United Kingdom, engaged in winning, extracting or smelting, dressing, refining, or dealing by way of Wholesale trade in non-ferrous metals or ores, in which enemies were interested directly or indirectly to the extent of one-fifth or more of the capital, profits or voting power.

(Date.)

(Signature.)

Note 1.--This form must be signed by the individual or by a member of the firm or a director of the company applying for a

e-nce.

Note 2.- Enemy" is defined in the First Schedule to the Act a subject of a State which is now at war with His Majesty and an enemy controlled corporation," as defined in the said Sedule.

Note 3.—“ Capital' in relation to a company is defined in the First Schedule to the Act as any shares or securities issued by the company which carry, or would if the necessary formalities were

plied with, carry, any voting power with respect to the manageHent of the company, and as including debentures and debenture stock and money lent to the company.

Form 2A.

THE NON-FERROUS METAL INDUSTRY ACT, 1918."

Application for Hearing.

I (we) apply to be heard in support of my (our) application for alence under "The Non-Ferrous Metal Industry Act, 1918.' The grounds on which I (we) claim that a licence should be granted to me (us) are

(Signature.)

(Date.)

T the Board of Trade.

Form 2B.

THE NON-FERROUS METAL INDUSTRY ACT, 1918."

Application for Hearing.

I (we) apply to be heard to show cause why the licence granted to me (us) under "The Non-Ferrous Metal Industry Act, 1918," should not be revoked or suspended.

The grounds on which I (we) claim that my (our) licence should not be revoked or suspended are

(Date.)

(Signature.)

To the Board of Trade.

Applications for licences should be addressed to

The Assistant Scretary,

Department of Industries and Manufactures,

Board of Trade,

Gwydyr House,

Whitehall, London, S.W. 1,

and should be accompanied by a remittance of 11. 18., made payable to the Accountant-General, Board of Trade.

Copies of Forms 1 and 2A and 2B, prescribed in the rules, can be obtained on application at the above address.

BRITISH ORDER consolidating the Aliens Restriction Orders as amended by Orders in Council and by Orders of the Secretary of State.-London, March 4, 1918.*

PART I.-Restrictions on Landing and Embarking in the United Kingdom.

Approved Ports and Prohibited Ports.

1.-(1.) For the purposes of this Order, the following ports are approved ports, that is to say:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne,

Hull,

London,

Folkestone,

Southampton,

Bristol,

Holyhead,

Liverpool,

Glasgow,

Dublin,

Falmouth,

and any other port or place in the United Kingdom is, for the purposes of this Order, a prohibited port.

*The first Aliens Restriction Order was issued on August 5th, 1914. (See Vol. 27, page 540.) This Order was amended by Orders issued on August 10th, 12th and 20th, 1914, and a fresh Order consolidating previous Orders was issued on September 9th, 1914. (See Vol. 27, page 578.)

By Order of the 30th September, 1914, the Aliens Restriction Order, with certain modifications, was applied to the Isle of Man. Further amending Orders were made on the 8th October and the 28th November, 1914, the 7th January, the 13th April, the 28th July, 1915, and the 27th January, 1916, and a further consolidation

(2.) For the purposes of this Order the limits of the approved ports shall be those specified in the First Schedule to this Order, and any part of an approved port outside those limits shall be treated as though it were part of a prohibited port.

(3.) A Secretary of State may by order, after consulting the Admiralty and the Army Council, add any port to the list of approved ports, or remove any port from that list, and prescribe or alter the limits of any approved port; and this Order shall thereupon have effect accordingly.

Landing in the United Kingdom.

2. (1.) An alien shall not land in the United Kingdom at a prohibited port:

Provided that

(a.) Where a Secretary of State is satisfied that an alien friend has arrived at a prohibited port in ignorance of the provisions of this Order or in any other circumstances entitling him to special consideration, and may safely be permitted to land, he may grant him permission accordingly; and

(b.) Subject to the provisions of this Order the foregoing prohibition shall not, unless in any particular case an aliens officer so directs, apply to an alien friend who is the master or a member of the crew of a vessel arriving at a prohibited port, if whilst he is on shore he complies with such requirements (if any) as may be imposed upon him or upon masters and seamen generally by an aliens officer at the port;

and any alien friend who lands in accordance with this proviso, and, if conditionally disembarked, who complies with the conditions, shall not be liable to any penalty for landing at the port in question.

3. An alien enemy shall not land in the United Kingdom at an approved port without the permission of a Secretary of State.

Order was issued on the 29th February, 1916, which is the Order now in force. (See page 212.)

This Order in its turn was amended by Orders issued on the 30th March, 27th June, the 7th July, the 7th September, and the 6th November, 1916, and the Order was then reprinted in accordance with Article 35, embodying all amendments up-to-date. (See "London Gazette," November 6th, 1916.)

Since November 1916 amending Orders have been made on the 6th February, the 30th March, the 13th June, and the 22nd August, 1917, and on the 5th February and 4th March, 1918. All these amending Orders are included in the present reprint.