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Power of deportation generally.
No. 25 of 1917. *
DEPORTATION.
4. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (14), the Governor in Council may at any time issue a deportation order against any person whatsoever if upon inquiry 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.
(3) No proceedings whatsoever connected in any manner with any inquiry under the provisions of this Ordinance, or with any other inquiry with a view to deportation made before or after the commencement of this Ordinance under the provisions of any other enactment, shall be any bar to any subsequent inquiry under the provisions of this Ordinance or to the making of any deportation order thereon.
(4) The Governor may, whenever it shall appear to him that there are reasonable grounds for inquiry as to whether any person should be deported, issue a warrant in Form No. 1 in the Schedule authorising the arrest of such person and his detention for a period not exceeding six days.
(5) Any person arrested under any such warrant may be detained in the custody of any officer referred to in the said warrant and may be transferred from the custody of any such officer to any other such officer as often as may be desirable.
(6) So soon as conveniently may be after the arrest of any person under any such warrant, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or one of the Assistants to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, or the District Officer, shall interview the person so arrested and shall ask such person the questions set forth in Form No. 2 in the Schedule: Provided however that, if such person does not in answer to the fourth question in the said form say anything in answer to the charge preferred against him or give any reason why he should not be deported, it shall not be necessary for such person to be asked to answer the fifth, sixth and seventh questions in the said form.
(7) The officer who interviews such person shall take down in English, with or without the assistance of an interpreter and whether such interpreter be sworn or not, a full record of the answers given by the person interviewed to the questions.
As amended by No. 19 of 1921 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.