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born in the Colony. The amendment will add to this class a British subject born of parents who at the time of his or her birth were ordinarily resident in the Colony.
3. Section 2 (3) of the principal Ordinance provided that a person should be deemed an immigrant British subject if at the date of the service upon him of a notice under section 5, or, in the case of a convicted person, the date upon which he is charged with the offence, he is a British subject and has been resident in the Colony since the date of his last arrival therein for less than certain prescribed periods. The words "since the date of his last arrival therein" were inserted to prevent a claim of former residence defeating the unexpressed intention of the Committee which prepared the model that the periods of residence concerned must have immediately preceded the service of notice or the charge. At the same time the words in question were not satisfactory because thereby a long period of residence might be broken by a few days absence. The amendment will delete these words and substitute others expressing more clearly the intention of the Committee.
4. Section 2 (3) (b) of the principal Ordinance provided that a convicted or undesirable British subject should be deemed an immigrant if his period of residence had been less than seven years.
To conform with the model the amend- ment will reduce this period to two years.
5. To conform with the model this Bill will amend section 9 (1) of the principal Ordinance so as to provide for the service on a deportee of a summary of the findings of fact and conclusions of law arrived at by the Judge in Chambers who has dealt with his case under 6 (2).
March, 1937.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.