This Act may be cited as the Revocation of Naturalization Amendment Act, 1920, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Revocation of Naturalization Act, 1917 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

On the issue of an Order in Council under section three of the principal Act, declaring that the naturalization of any person is revoked, it shall be the duty of that person, and of any other person or persons in whose possession or control his certificate or letters of naturalization may be, to deliver such certificate or letters to an officer of police or to some other person authorized by or on behalf of the Minister of Internal Affairs to receive the same, and such certificate or letters shall be dealt with as hereinafter provided.

All such letters of naturalization issued in New Zealand shall be retained by the Minister of Internal Affairs.

The endorsement pursuant to section seven of the Aliens Act, 1908, or the corresponding provisions of any former Act, of any certificate or letters of naturalization issued in the United Kingdom or in any British possession shall be cancelled by or by direction of the Minister of Internal Affairs, and the certificate or letters shall then be returned to the person entitled thereto.

Every person having possession or control of any certificate or letters of naturalization required to be delivered up pursuant to this Act, who fails so to deliver the same within one month after the publication in the Gazette of an Order in Council revoking the naturalization of the person to whom such certificate or letters of naturalization relate, shall be liable on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate to imprisonment for three months, or to a fine of one hundred pounds.

Every person whose naturalization has been revoked as provided in the principal Act shall be deemed to be in possession of his certificate or letters of naturalization, as the case may be, unless and until he proves the contrary, if the same have not been delivered up pursuant to this Act.

All the provisions of this Act shall apply to persons whose naturalization has been revoked before the passing of this Act, except only that in the case of such persons the words “within one month after the commencement of this Act” shall be substituted in section three hereof for the words “within one month after the publication in the Gazette of an Order in Council revoking the naturalization of the person to whom such certificate or letters of naturalization relate.”