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A BILL
[No. 17-24.9.35.-3.]
INTITULED
An Ordinance to regulate the Deportation of Undesirable
British subjects.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Deportation Short title. (British Subjects) Ordinance, 1936.
2.--(1) In this Ordinance--
(a)
Convicted person" means a person in respect of
whom the Governor is satisfied that he has been convicted by any court of any offence punishable with imprisonment otherwise than only in default of payment of a fine.
(b) "Deportation order" means an order requiring the person in respect of whom it is made to leave or remain out of the Colony.
(c) "Destitute person" means a person who is, or is likely to be, a charge upon public funds by reason of mental or bodily health or insufficiency of means to support himself and his dependants (if any).
(d) "Person charged" means a person in respect of whom it is alleged that there are grounds for making a deportation order under this Ordinance and includes a person in respect of whom such an order has been made.
Interpreta- tion.
(e) "Prohibited immigrant" means a person who being of one or more of the categories set out in paragraphs (a) Ordinance to (i) of sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Immigration and No. 8 of Passports Ordinance, 1934, has entered the Colony but has not thereby committed an offence under that Ordinance.
(f) "Undesirable person" means a person who is or has been conducting himself so as to be dangerous to peace, good order, good government, or public morals.
(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance a person shall be deemed to belong to the Colony if he or she is a British subject and--
(a) was born in the Colony; or
(b) has been ordinarily resident in the Colony con- tinuously for a period of seven years or more and since the completion of such period of residence has not been ordinarily resident in any other part of His Majesty's dominions or any territory under His Majesty's protection continuously for a period of seven years or more; or
1934.