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Definition (Native) Regulation 1907

UNITED KINGDOM

DEFINITION (NATIVE) REGULATION

No. 3 of 1907

In the name of His Majesty, EDWARD VII., of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Emperor of India, &c., &c., &c.

KINGS REGULATION

(Made by His Majesty's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, in accordance with the provisions of the Pacific Order in Council, 1893)

TO DEFINE THE MEANING OF THE TERM "NATIVE."

[L.S.]

EVERARD IM THURN.

Necessity for definition.
1. WHEREAS it is expedient to define the meaning of the term "native" as employed in the Regulations Proclamations and Notifications that have been and may be issued by His Majesty's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific in virtue of the powers vested in him by the Pacific Order in Council 1893.

Definition of term.
2. The term "native" shall unless otherwise defined mean and include in its reference -

Aborigines.
(1) Any aboriginal native of any island in the Pacific Ocean.

Half-castes.
(2) Any person of mixed European and aboriginal native descent who shall not have been registered by a Deputy Commissioner or whose registration shall have been cancelled in the manner provided in section three hereof.

Registration.
3. On personal application being made in that behalf to a Deputy Commissioner for the Western Pacific by any person of mixed European and parent descent or on the application of the European parent or guardian of the person concerned, such Deputy Commissioner shall unless he is satisfied that the applicant or the person on whose behalf application is made has contracted or has not abandoned native habits of life and provided always that such applicant speaks one European language, register such person as being of status equivalent to Europeans; and such registration shall be liable to cancellation by the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific on the representation of a Deputy Commissioner that the person so registered has abandoned European for native habits of life.

Half-castes in Tonga.
4. Provided that in the Kingdom of Tonga registration of persons of mixed European and native descent by the Consul of a European Power shall be regarded as equivalent to registration by a Deputy Commissioner under section three above.

New Hebrides exempt.
5. This Regulation shall not apply to the New Hebrides.

Short title.
6. This Regulation may be cited as "The Definition (Native) Regulation 1907."

Published and exhibited in the Public Office of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific this twenty-third day of May one thousand nine hundred and seven.

By Command,

M. KING,

Secretary, Western Pacific High Commissioner

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