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to deport a prisoner from Hong Kong to the country to
which he belongs, i.e. it may be to some third coun-
try;
it appears however to Sir E. Grey, as at present
advised, that the powers of Sections 7 and 8 of the
Foreign Jurisdiction Act would be exhausted when the
sentence is served at Hong Kong, or when deportation
to Hong Kong takes place, and that those powers cannot
extend beyond the confines of that Colony.
Sir E. Grey is further of opinion that the best
means to attain the desired end would be to give the
Court at Shanghai power, when sending persons to Hong
Kong for imprisonment, to order that at the end of
their sentence they be not allowed to return to China,
1.8. that power should be given to the Court to make
an order of prohibition.
It would then be necessary
for contemporaneous legislation to take place at Hong
Kong, to the effect that when a person has been sent
from China to be imprisoned at Hong Kong, and has been
prohibited from returning to China, the Governor may
at the conclusion of such prisoner's sentence, and
provided that the prisoner does not belong to Hong
Kong
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