A.D. 1955
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Commonwealth Immigrants
4 ELIZ. 2
(2) So much of any Order in Council under this Act as makes provision for purposes specified in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of the last foregoing subsection shall not apply to any person
who-
(a) is the holder of a valid passport issued to him by the 5
Government of the United Kingdom, of any of the Channel Islands or of the Isle of Man (not being a passport so issued on behalf of the Government of any other part of the Commonwealth); or
(b) being ordinarily resident within the British Islands, 10
arrives on a ship or aircraft which began its voyage at a place within those Islands and has not during the voyage called at any place outside those Islands.
(3) An Order in Council under this Act shall not prohibit or confer power to prohibit the entry into the United Kingdom of 15 a person who satisfies such authority as may be specified in the Order-
(a) that he wishes to enter for the purpose of a temporary
visit only; or
(b) that he wishes to enter for the purpose of taking up 201
employment under an employer who is authorised for the purposes of the Order to employ him, or that he is in a position to support himself and his dependants (if any) while in the United Kingdom, otherwise than by taking employment therein, and in either case that 25 suitable housing accommodation is available for him in the United Kingdom,
unless, in any such case, it appears to the said authority that his entry would be undesirable for medical reasons, or that he has been sentenced in any country to imprisonment for a term of 30 not less than twelve months or is a person likely to act to the prejudice of national security or public order, or to promote industrial unrest.
(4) A deportation order shall not be made by virtue of an Order in Council under this Act in the case of any person who 35 for the time being is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, and has been so resident for the last previous seven years, or in the case of any person both of whose parents were so resident at the time of his birth.
(5) This section applies in relation to British protected persons 40 and citizens of the Republic of Ireland as it applies in relation to British subjects.
Supplementary 2.-(1) An Order in Council under this Act may make provisions as provision-
to Orders in Council.
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(a) for conferring and imposing on the Secretary of State, 45
and such officers as may be designated in the Order,
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