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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 12, 1917.
HONGKONG.
No. 25 OF 1917.
I assent to this Ordinance.
LS
F. H. MAY, Governor,
Short title.
Interpre- tation.
Power of
summary deportation.
Ordinance
No. 10 of 1886.
Power of
12th October, 1917.
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the deportation of undesirable persons.
[12th October, 1917.)
Be it enneted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :---
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Deportation Ordinance, 1917.
2. In this Ordinance :---
(a)
British subject inclules a uztural horu British subject and a person naturalised under an Imperial Act or under an Ordinance of the Colony:
(b) "Legal procee ling" inclules every civil and criminal proceding before any court, every proe eling before any other tribunal established by law, and every arbitration.
3.-(1.) The Governor in Council may at any time summarily issue a deportation order against :-
(a) any person who has been convicted of an offence
under section 9 of this Ordinance; or
(b) any person, who has been evicted in the Colony of any offence, other than an offence under section 9 of this Ordinance, and who in the opinion of the Governor in Conacil is not a British subject; or
(c) any person who has been imprisoned in this Colony in pursuance of a sentence imposed by His Majesty's Supreme Court for China.
(2.) During the continuance of any proclamation issued under the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, the Gover- nor in Council may at any time summarily issue a deporta- tion order against any person who in the opinion of the Governor in Connel is not a natar boru British subject if in the osinion of the Governor in Council it is desirable for the public safety or in the interests of the peace or good order of the Colony that such person should be deported.
(3.) A deportation order issued under this section may be in Form No. 7 in the Sche lule hereto.
(4.) The procedure prescribed in section 1 of this Ordinance shall not apply to deportation orders made under the provisious of this section and such orders may be made upon such information or sam nary enquiry as the Gover- nor in Council may think sufficient.
4.—(1.) Suoject to the provisions of sub-section (14) of deportation this section, the Governor in Council may at any time generally.
issue a deportation order against any person whatsoever if upon enquiry in the manner prescribed in this section the Governor in Council is of opinion that such person is liable to deportation and should be deported.
(2.) No steps or proceedings whatsoever other than those expressly specified in this section shall be necessary for the making of any deportation order under this section.