REGISTERING ALIENS IN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2852, 17 August 1916, Page 6

REGISTERING ALIENS IN

AUSTRALIA

DUTY OF HOTELIvEEREIiS. "Any alion friend or alien enemy over I tho -age of 15" will, under a new regu- • lation under -the Federal War Precau- ~ tions Act, have to apply for registration. Police officers in charge of police sta- : 1 tions are. to be'registration officials. Ex- . ,'omptiona .from , registration may be 7i ;;.'i^ant6d... Children, of, alien residents not being' natural-born British subjects are required'to be registered in the soma way as aliens. Masters and crews of , vessels, if aliens, must register ,at the first port of call in the Commonwealth, t Every alien whether registered, or not, who changes his place of abode, must, within seveii days, notify the fact to an alien registration offioer. . The keepers of every hotel, inn, boardinghouse, and in Australia iar'e required to enter in a register the names and of all aliens staying on the '$;• premises, together with the dates of 'their .j. arrival and departure, their destinations, .V and such other particulars as may be required. Power is given to officers to arrest without'warrant any person whom' he has reasonable ground to believe baa committed an offence against tho reguia'tions. The prohibition against enemy subjects h'f , acquiring freehold property in the C'ominonwealth without the consent of tho ;<'i Commonwealth Attorney-Genera!, has been extended to include leaseholds, if they exceed" a term of 25 years. Power is also taken to proclaim districts li; Australia in which a British-born boh, whose father or paternal grandfather was ,of enemy birth, is,to be, treated as a naturalised person of enemy origin, who cannot, without 'the .-assent of the Minister, acquire land, whether freehold , or leasehold.