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This bill differs from the previous draft at (1) at a number of points. It gives the Governor greater powers to order removal from Hong Kong and to make deportation orders without reference to the Secretary of State and includes all British subjects not born or naturalized in Hong Kong in its definition of "immigrants." Apart from the fact that the bill would afford the Governor wider powers than are at present enjoyed in the United Kingdom by the Home Secretary I think it would be reasonable to query the need to make British subjects belonging to U.K. subject to the same restrictions as aliens.
It would be interesting to know whether in recent years reference has ever been made to the Secretary of State in connection with the deportation of a British subject from Hong Kong.
I have asked Library about the circular despatch and they are trying to trace it.
E. Clittem
(E. G. Clifton)
Migration & Visa Department. 11 November, 1970.
Mr Streeton.
Strepton.
"his same question, of provision for the deport-
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ation of British subjects from the dependent territories, has arisen in relation to Montserr t, the Cayman Islands HWC 18/11.
afe fube and the British Virgin Islan s.In each case the Governor (below)
or Administrator is seeking wider powers to deport British subjects than were previously allowed him by the terms of a circular despatch, sent as the conclusion of an official committee, in the 1930s.
One satisfactory way to arrive at a decision on these new pieces of legislation might be for our Legal Advisers to study the terms of that despatch(which the Library is currently trying to trace)and consider how far it is still binding on th territories in question (although as a useful preliminary Hong Kong Department might well ask the Governor why he considers these mea- sures are desirable).
Juliet Miller
(R.J.Miller) (Miss)
24/x/70.