British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1943

10 Interpretation and construction

(1) In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say :—

• " Consulate of His Majesty " means the office of a consular officer of His Majesty where a register of births is kept, or, in the case of any territory where there is no such office and there is a resident or administrator appointed by a Government of His Majesty, or any other representative of His Majesty, the office of such resident, administrator or representative:

• " Dominion " means a Dominion specified in the First Schedule to the principal Act:

• " The present war period " means the period beginning with the third day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and ending with such date as His Majesty may by Order in Council appoint.

(2) Subsection (1) of section eight of the principal Act (which extends to British Possessions the provisions of that Act as to the grant and revocation of certificates of naturalization, subject to the modifications therein mentioned), and sections twenty, twenty-two, and twenty-three, and subsection (1) of section twenty-six of that Act (which relate to proof of documents and other supplemental matters) shall have effect as if the references therein to that Act included references to this Act.