994 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [part 1V
persons naturalized in any part of the Union shall be deemed
to be naturalized in the whole of the Union. This provision
is of obvious convenience and of value ; it has no parallel in
the North America Act or in the Commonwealth Constitution
Act, but in both these cases subsequent legislation, under
the power to legislate for naturalization given to the
Dominion! and the Commonwealth 2 by the Constitution,
has brought about a similar state of affairs, and naturalization
is granted under Acts of the Commonwealth and the Dominion
which make it apply to the whole Dominion and Common-
wealth respectively. The effect of such naturalization was,
however, in the case of the Union under the original draft
Constitution only extended in the case of Europeans, and
the somewhat anomalous and unsatisfactory position still
remained that natives naturalized in any of the provinces
would continue only to be British subjects in the provinces in
question. This result was unfortunate and unsymmetrical,
and indeed it was in reality a contravention of the whole
spirit of the Union. The creation of a Union was intended
to substitute for four separate Colonies a single Colony, and
to perpetuate separation of the provinces by this provision
was contrary to the whole principle of the Union itself. It
is difficult to see what practical advantage could have been
gained from a situation which was legally anomalous? and
fortunately the clause was amended at the Bloemfontein
Conference by the omission of the word ‘ European ’, and
a uniform naturalization law was passed by the Union
Parliament in 1910 by Act No. 4.
§ 9. ENTRANCE OF NEW PROVINCES AND TERRITORIES
Provision 4 is made upon addresses from the Houses of the
Union Parliament for the future entry into the Union of
the territories administered by the British South Africa
* British North America Act, 1867. s. 91 (25). See now Revised Statutes.
£906, c. 77.
* Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900, Const. & 51 (xix).
See Naturalization Act, 1903.
* Cf. also The Government of South Africa, i. 157 seq.
' 5, 150. Parliament may also (s. 149) at the request of any Provincial
