1920 Aliens Order

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The 1920 Aliens Order was a statutory instrument created under the Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act 1919 and extended powers over the entry of immigrants into Britain. The order made passports obligatory and was brought out in the context of widespread unemployment after the First World War. All aliens seeking employment or residence were as a result required to register with the police and a 'central register of aliens' was maintained under the direction of the Secretary of State.[1][2][3][4][5]

The Order also required the medical inspection of all aliens entering Britain and permitted immigration officers to refuse entry to those deemed "a lunatic, idiot, or mentally deficient" or if "certified by a medical inspector that for medical reasons his admission is undesirable".[6]

The Order remained in force until it was replaced by the .[7]

References[]

  1. ^ On the State of the Public Health: The Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health. H.M. Stationery Office. 1922. p. 170.
  2. ^ Steiner, W. A. (1951). "Aiding and Abetting. Aliens Order, 1920". The Modern Law Review. 14 (3): 361–363. ISSN 0026-7961. JSTOR 1089202.
  3. ^ "British nationality and status of aliens bill. [H.L.] (Hansard, 18 May 1920)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  4. ^ Reinecke, Christiane (April 2009). "Governing Aliens in Times of Upheaval: Immigration Control and Modern State Practice in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, Compared with Prussia". International Review of Social History. 54 (1): 39–65. doi:10.1017/S0020859009000029. ISSN 1469-512X.
  5. ^ John Torpey (2000). The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State. Cambridge University Press. p. 116. ISBN 0-521-63249-8.
  6. ^ Taylor, Becky (15 April 2016). "Immigration, Statecraft and Public Health: The 1920 Aliens Order, Medical Examinations and the Limitations of the State in England". Social History of Medicine. 29 (3): 512–533. doi:10.1093/shm/hkv139. PMC 4966482. PMID 27482146.
  7. ^ Richard Plender (1988). International Migration Law. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 90. ISBN 90-247-3604-8.


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