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judicial enquiry into the case has been held. The Ordinance
was enacted at the request of the Secretary of State for the
Colonies and follows the lines of a model Ordinance sent by
the Secretary of State to all Dependent Territories.
However,
at that time, nearly 40 years ago, immigration issues in general
did not present the same acute problems that they do today and
the United Kingdom's own immigration laws were then such that
no British subject could be refused admission to or deported
from this country.
4. The Bill has been examined in the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office over a period of several months. But this examination
has been made more difficult by the need to study its provisions
against the background of the United Kingdom Government's own
Immigration Bill which is still before Parliament and the final
form of which is only now emerging.
5.
Particular attention is drawn to the following Clauses of
the Bill:
Clause 17 (1) (b). This Clause retains the Governor's
power to order the removal of illegal immigrants
(including citizens of the UK and Colonies) and those in
breach of conditions of stay. But the Clause goes further
in providing that a conviction will no longer be a
prerequisite to the making of such an order. The Governor
states that at present it is often necessary to bring a
prosecution for the sole purpose of enabling the Governor
to order removal when the public interest would not
otherwise require the offender to be prosecuted.
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/Clause 17 (1) (c).