The provisions of the Defence of the Realm Regulations are as a rule so vaguely known that the following should be of interest to those about to proceed Home, as showing the necessity for obtaining passport or some other document which indubitably -~-~0s the nationally of the holder Regulation 14 ".—(1). A. person coming from, or intending to proceed to, any place out of the United Kingdom as a passenger shall not, without the special permission of a Secretary of State, land or embark at any port in the United Kingdom unless he has in his possession valid passport issued to him not more than two years previously, by or on behalf of the Government of the country of which he is a sub-/ ject or a citizen, or, in the of a person coming from a outside the United Kingdom, either such @ passport or some other document satisfactorily establishing his nationality and identity. To every such passport and document as aforesaid there must be attached photograph of the person to whom it relates. In the case of British subjects resident in Ireland special permission to embark may be given by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland instead of by " Secretary of Btate.
(2). If any person lands or em-
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(3). For the purposes of this gulation the expression senger" includes any person carried on a ship other than a master or persons employed in the work or service of the permit from the Secretary of State will only be granted in exceptional cases, e.g., where a person whether British or alien is for some reason ineligible for passport, while a permit from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland will be issued in proper cases to British subjects resident in Ireland in lieu of a passport.
British male subjects of military age (i.e. between the ages of 18 and 41) who desire to leave the be! United Kingdom (a) if resident in England, Scotland or Wales must hold either a passport issued by the Foreign Office on or after November 15, 1915, or a passport issued before November 15, 1915, which has been viseed by the Foreign Office since that date; (b) if a resident in Ireland must hold either a passport or a vised passport as specified in (a) or a permit issued by the Lord Lieutenant.
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