DANISH LAW respecting Nationality and Naturalization.

(Translation.)

[Received the King's Assent, March 28, 1898.]

§ 1. THE character of a Danish-born subject is acquired by birth by legitimate children if the father is a Danish-born subject, irrespective of whether their birth takes place on national or on foreign territory.

§ 2. Persons not having acquired Danish nationality by birth, but who have been born in the kingdom, shall acquire such nationality if they have been continuously resident in the kingdom up to the completion of their 19th year of age, unless in the course of the last year they have made before the chief authority (in the case of Copenhagen before the Chief Magistrate) a written declaration that they do not desire to acquire Danish nationality, and at the same time produced a certified proof that they possess the rights of nationality in a foreign State. This declaration, however, cannot be made with legal effect by the child of a foreigner who has, in the same manner, established his claim to foreign nationality.

The nationality acquired by a man, in accordance with the provisions of this clause, accrues equally to his wife and legitimate children.

§ 3. A foreign woman who marries a man possessed of Danish nationality acquires by her marriage the same rights of nationality.

If the parties to the marriage have had children together previous to the solemnization of the marriage, these children, provided they be minors (i.e., under 18 years of age), equally acquire Danish nationality.

§ 4. Danish nationality may also be acquired by naturalization in accordance with the Constitutional Law of the 28th July, 1866, § 51.

The naturalization of a man includes that of his wife and legitimate minor children, provided that nothing to the contrary is laid down for the particular case in question.

§ 5. Danish nationality is forfeited by any one becoming subject of another State. On the naturalization of a man in a foreign State, his wife, or legitimate minor children, unless they remain in Denmark, equally lose their Danish nationality, but only in case of his naturalization in the foreign State in question equally conferring on them the rights of nationality in that State.

Whoever desires to become the subject of a foreign State may, by a Royal Resolution, be freed from his nationality in Denmark. This freedom is, however, only granted on the condition that

such person shall become a subject of another country within a given time.

§ 6. A woman who marries a man who does not possess Danish nationality loses her Danish nationality.

If such people have children before their marriage, the children lose their Danish nationality if they are minors when the parents marry. If they are of age at that time they keep their Danish nationality.

§ 7. If any Danish man, or any spinster more than 18 years old, or any widow, or any divorced woman after the dissolution of her marriage, shall have resided abroad for an unbroken period of ten years, they shali lose their nationality (compare § 8), unless their absence is due to their being officially employed by the Government, or unless they have reserved their nationality by making a written declaration in the prescribed form at the Danish Legation or Consulate where they reside, within the expiration of the abovementioned period of time. A similar declaration must be made every ten years, reckoned from the previous declaration.

Only the person himself who has emigrated can make this declaration, and his children, and their widows.

The wife aud legitimate minor children of such persons also lose their Danish nationality if they do not remain in the realm.

The conditions enumerated in this section may be cancelled or modified by agreement with a foreign Power as regards such Power.

§ 8. A person who, according to the regulations in § 7, has lost his Danish nationality, but has not assumed foreign nationality, resumes his nationality by taking up his residence in the kingdom, or even without such residence, by special permission of the King.

The wives and legitimate minor children of such men who have thus resumed their nationality acquire thereby Danish nationality even if they retain their residence abroad, notwithstanding that the marriage and birth may have taken place after the man's loss of nationality, and that the marriage and birth, in themselves originally, have not been sufficient to give them nationality.

§ 9. An illegitimate child whose mother possesses Danish nationality acquires Danish nationality by its birth, whether the birth take place in this country or abroad.

In cases where, according to this Law, legitimate children take the nationality of their father, illegitimate children similarly take the nationality of their mother.

Should the mother lose her nationality by marriage with one who is not the father of her children, no change is thereby effected in the nationality of her children.

§ 10. Children in the kingdom about whose nationality nothing is known shall be considered as having Danish nationality until further proof.

§ 11. Section 2 of this Law is also applicable to people born before the Law shall have come into force, but who have not yet acquired nationality according to the Decree of the 15th January, 1776, § 9. Women likewise acquire nationality who at the time. that this Law comes into force are living in lawful wedlock with a man who possesses Danish nationality.

Moreover, the terms of this Law only apply to cases in which the circumstances which have been the ground of the acquisition or loss of citizenship were existing after the coming into force of this Law.

§ 12. This Law makes no alteration in any rights possessed by foreigners under existing regulations owing to their having resided or having been domiciled in the country for a certain length of time.

§ 13. This present Law supersedes former Nationality Laws, and shall similarly be enforced throughout the whole Danish kingdom.

It does not relate to persons whose nationality is reserved in accordance with Article XIX of the Treaty of Peace of the 30th October, 1864.*

ACT of the British Parliament, to enable Her Majesty the Queen to carry into effect a Convention made for facilitating the Raising of a Loan by the Government of Greece.

[61 Vict., c. 4.]

[April 1, 1898.]

WHEREAS the Government of Her Majesty the Queen has entered into a Convention with the Governments of France, Russia, and Greece, containing Articles to the effect set forth in the Schedule to this Act for facilitating the raising of a loan by the Government of Greece, and, in pursuance of Her Majesty's gracious recommendation in that behalf, it is expedient to enable Her Majesty to carry into effect the said Convention:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1.-(1.) Her Majesty the Queen may guarantee jointly with the Governments named in Article IX of the Convention set forth in the Schedule to this Act, and severally upon the terms and conditions

*Vol. LIV, page 522.

set forth in the Articles in that Schedule, the regular payment of the annuity required under the said Articles for the service of the loan to be raised as therein mentioned by the Government of Greece.

(2.) In the event of the power specified in Article XI of the Schedule (respecting the conversion of the loan) being exercised, Her Majesty the Queen may, in substitution for the former guarantee, guarantee jointly with the said Governments and severally the regular payment of such annual sum as appears to Her Majesty to be required for the effective exercise of the said power so that the annual sum so guaranteed does not exceed in amount or continue for a longer time than the annuity previously guaranteed.

(3.) The Treasury shall charge on and issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, or the growing produce thereof, such sums as may from time to time be required for fulfilling the guarantee of Her Majesty in pursuance of this Act.

(4.) All sums paid from time to time in or towards the repayment of any sum issued out of the Consolidated Fund in pursuance of this Act shall be paid into the Exchequer.

(5.) The Treasury shall, during the continuance of the said guarantee, lay before both Houses of Parliament in every year within one month after the 31st day of March, an account up to that day of the total sums, if any, which have been either issued from the Consolidated Fund in pursuance of this Act, or paid in or towards repayment of any money so issued.

2. This Act may be cited as "The Greek Loan Act, 1898."

SCHEDULE.

Articles contained in a Convention made in March, 1898, between the Governments of Great Britain, France, Russia, and Greece respecting the Guarantee of a Loan of 6,800,000l. to be issued by the Government of Greece, the English translation of which Articles is as follows.*

I.-Issue of the Loan.

ART. I. The Hellenic Government may issue, under the guarantee afforded by the present Convention, at an effective rate of interest not exceeding 2 per cent., and for a period of not more than sixty years, the amount of bonds necessary to produce a net maximum sum of 170,000,000 fr., 6,800,000l., or 63,750,000 roubles, which shall be employed in the manner provided in Articles 7 and 10 of the Law regarding the Control.

The conditions of this loan will be settled by mutual agreement between the

* For original French text of the Convention, see page 27.

three Guaranteeing Powers and the Hellenic Government. They will form the subject of a Règlement which will be sanctioned by a Royal Decree, issued in the Council of Ministers under special legislative authorization.

II. Of the capital fixed by Article I, the amount of bonds necessary to produce a net sum of 150,000,000 fr., 6,000,000l., or 56,250,000 roubles will be issued immediately.

The bonds intended eventually to cover the deficits of the year 1898 and the following years, up to a maximum of 20,000,000 fr., will be issued as they are required, under special legislative authorizations, which must have been previously submitted for the approval of the International Commission, in accordance with Article 10 of the Law regarding the Control.

The power to issue these bonds will not extend beyond the year 1903.

III. The expenses of issue, of negotiation, and of commission, will be added to the capital of the loans referred to in the preceding Article.

II.-Service of the Loan.

IV. The service of the loan will be provided for by a fixed annuity, calculated, including amortization, at 3'6 per cent. of the nominal capital, and furnished by the revenues assigned for the service of the Hellenic Public Debt, according to the provisions of the Law regarding the Control.

The amortization shall not, however, commence till 1903, and for the first five years the annuity to be provided by the Hellenic Government will be 2.5 per cent. of the nominal capital of the loans issued.

V. The coupons will be paid in gold on the 1st April and 1st October of each year, at places to be fixed hereafter.

VI. The portion of the annuity fixed by Article IV which is not absorbed by the service of the interest will be assigned for the amortization of the loan. The amortization will be carried out at par by drawings. If, however, the price is below par, it may be effected by purchases in the market.

III.-Employment of the Proceeds of the Loan.

VII. The proceeds of the loan will be employed by the International Commission in the manner laid down in Articles 7 and 10 of the Law regarding the Control.

VIII. The conditions of the conversion or repayment of the floating gold debt will form the subject of a Royal Decree, which shall previously be submitted for the approval of the International Commission.

The bonds destined to cover the sums in gold borrowed from the banks of issue under the Laws on the forced currency, as well as the other advances in gold made by those banks, will be deposited at the Bank of France, which will not give them up without the concurrence of the International Commission.

The coupons of these bonds will be detached and forwarded to the banks of issue.

IV.-Guarantee of the Loan.

IX. The Governments of France, Great Britain, and Russia undertake to guarantee jointly and severally, or to apply to their Parliaments for authority to guarantee jointly and severally, the regular service of the annuity fixed by Article IV.