After subsequent amendment and repeal, what remains comprises section 3 on sedition and promoting industrial unrest, section 6 on the civil service, section 8 on juries, section 13 on offences and penalties, and section 16 giving the short title.
Section 1 - Continuance of emergency powers
This section was repealed by section 34(1) of, and Schedule 6 to, the Immigration Act 1971.
Section 2 - Extension of powers
Section 2(1) was repealed by section 34(1) of, and Schedule 6 to, the Immigration Act 1971.
If any alien attempts or does any act calculated or likely to cause sedition or disaffection amongst any of His Majesty's Forces or the forces of His Majesty's allies, or amongst the civilian population, he shall be liable on conviction on indictment to penal servitude for a term not exceeding ten years, or on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
If any alien promotes or attempts to promote industrial unrest in any industry in which he has not been bona fide engaged for at least two years immediately preceding in the United Kingdom, he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
In 1977, the Law Commission recommended that this section be repealed.[4]
The words "a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale" are prospectively substituted for the words "imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months" in section 3(2) by paragraph 153 of Schedule 32 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
Section 4 - Pilotage certificates
This section was repealed by section 52(2) of, and Part II of Schedule 7 to, the Merchant Shipping Act 1979.
Section 5 - Employment of aliens in ships of the mercantile marine
In Brunning v Kollross,[5][6] the divisional court held that an alien, who carried on a business (which he acquired in 1921) under the trade name by which the business was known before the outbreak of war in 1914, was not infringing the provisions of section 7 of this Act, by continuing to carry on the business under that name.[7]
As to the effect of adding the words "& Co" to the name, see Evans v Piauneau.[8][9]
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^The Law Commission. Codification of the Criminal Law: Treason, Sedition and Allied Offences. Working Paper No 72. 1977. Paragraphs 89 and 94 and 96(10).
^For commentary of this case, see "Change of Name" in "Current Topics" (1927) 71 Solicitors Journal 435; and (1927) 38 Incorporated Accountants' Journal 346 (June 1927)
^ abThe Laws of England, Supplement No 15, 1925, para 1:682 at p 63