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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 158. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 29th May, 1913 :-
A BILL
Short title.
Repeal of sections 3, 4 and 5 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1912.
Summary deportation of locally convicted persons not subjects of His Majesty.
Deportation of British subjects imprisoned locally under sentence of His Majesty's Court in China.
Form of Deportation Order.
Deportation of persons generally. Procedure.
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend the Deportation Ordi-
nances, 1912.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Deportation Ordinance, 1913, and shall be read and construed as one with the Deportation Ordinance, 1912, and the Deportation Amendment Ordinance, 1912, and this Ordinance and the said Ordinances may be cited together as the Deportation Ordinances, 1912 and 1913.
2. Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1912, are, hereby repealed and the following sections substituted therefor :-
"3.-(1.) The Governor-in-Council may at any time summarily issue a Deportation Order against any person who has been convicted of any offence in the Colony and who in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council is not a natural born or naturalized subject of His Majesty and who in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council it is desirable should be deported from the Colony. (2.) The Governor-in-Council may at any time summarily issue a Deportation Order against any British subject not belonging to Hongkong who has been imprisoned in the Gaol of the Colony in pursuance of any sentence imposed by His Majesty's Supreme Court in China.
(3.) Any Deportation Order issued under the provisions of this section shall be in the Form No. 7 in the Schedule.
4.-(1.) Whenever it shall appear to the Governor-in- Council that there are reasonable grounds for enquiry as to whether any person, other than a person whom it may be desirable to deport under the provisions of sections 3, 5 or 9 or who is prohibited from resi- ding or being in the Colony under the provisions of section 11 of this Ordinance, should be deported; the Governor may issue a warrant in Form No. 1 in the Schedule authorising the Captain Super- intendent of Police to arrest and detain such person for a period not exceeding six days. (2.) The Captain Superintendent of Police may either lodge any person arrested or detained under any warrant referred to in the last sub-section in the House of Detention or keep such person in the custody of the Police.
(3.) The Captain Superintendent of Police shall came the Registrar General to be notified when in pursuance of any warrant issued under the provisions of sub-section of this section any person has been arrested or detaine 1.