7
X 23836/23
*18,21,22 and 23 on
28132/27 S.S.
Xin 22 on 28132/2,
X72773/30.
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made against the person whom it is proposed to
deport and the power of deciding whether a
deportation order should be made could still
rest with you in Executive Council, but if you
decided to act contrary to the opinion expressed
-
in the report a course which you would adopt
only for very strong reasons and in the most
exceptional circumstances the matter should
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be reported to me with full particulars.
#X
No immediate action was taken on
X
these instructions and the next development seems
to have been the 1927-28 correspondence on a
Straits Settlements file regarding Methods of
Counteracting Revolutionary Propaganda. In
reply to a request from the Governor for
fuller details of the lines on which it was
suggested that the judicial enquiry should
proceed he was sent a copy of the draft of a
Deportation Ordinance which had been prepared
for Kenya and "which, so far as local conditions
allow, might serve as a model for the machinery
of judicial enquiry". This is the draft in
6015/24 Kenya, which seems never to have been
in Kenya introduced
X
for the reason given in X 10341/27).
There was further delay and the
matter was not dealt with in the amending
Ordinance No. 34 of 1929.* A Committee was
appointed by the Governor to consider the
matter and the Duke of Devonshire's instructions
were finally carried out by Ordinance 7 of 1931.
(The 1923 instructions were not referred to in
forwarding