Objects and Reasons,
The object of this Bill is twofold. In the first pince it has been pointed out that the provisions of section 4 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1913, might possibly be con- struel to apply to British subjects. As this was not the intention contemplated by the section, the present Bill lays down with precision the cases in which the provisions of the section do not apply.
It will be observed that the Bill provides that the provisions of section 4 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1913, shall not apply to those classes of persons for which minder the provisions of sections 3, 5, 9 and 11 the Deporta- tion Ordinances of 1911 and 1913 specifically provide. The Bill specifically prescribes that, subject to these exceptious and to the further exception mentioned later, the provisions of section 4 of the Ordinance shall not be applicable to persons who in the opinion of the Governor- in-Council are natural-born or uaturalizei subjects of His Majesty.
The second object of the Bill is to add to the powers of deportation which already exist under the local law, the additional power to deport a class of persons with which it has not been hitherto possible to deal in any way under the present enactments. This class consists of persons who although born in the Colony are not of British parentage on either side and the members of which are in the opinion of the Governor-in-Commeil dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony, a limitation being added that these new provisions shall not apply to any person who has obtained a certificate of his British birth or who is registered in a British Consulate in China as a person entitled to British protection in that country: it is also prescribed that all the formalities of section of the Deportation Ordinance, 1913, shall in any such case be complied with and that any Deportation Under issued under the new powers must be immediately reported to the Secretary of State.
Joas A. BOOKSILL.
Attorney Generat
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