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The Aliens Act 1905 (5 Edw. 7.c. 13) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [2] The act introduced immigration controls and registration for the first time, and gave the Home Secretary overall responsibility for matters concerning immigration and nationality. [2]
Although the 1905 Act technically survived until its repeal in 1919, it was, in practice, submerged by the far more stringent powers of the Aliens Restriction Act of 1914. The 1914 Act contained a clause which gave the Home Secretary power to prevent the entry and order the deportation of aliens if it was deemed 'conducive to the public good ...
Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in ...
Proposals of the Earl of Dunraven for restricting immigration were written up by Wilkins in The Alien Invasion (1892), with introduction by Robert Billing, in the "Social Questions of Today" series by Methuen & Co. [8] The recommendations in the book bore some relation to later measures in the Aliens Act 1905. [1]
The Alien Enemies Act was supposed to expire with the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1801, but instead the Alien Enemies Act remained in effect and became part of the United States Code.
Immigration was reduced by the Aliens Act 1905 and virtually curtailed by the 1914 Aliens Restriction Act. [75] In addition to those Russian Jews who settled permanently in the UK an estimated 500,000 Eastern European Jews transmigrated through British ports between 1881 and 1924. [76]
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
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