Enclosure No.2.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hong Kong 1st October, 193 1.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No
23
of 193 1
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1.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled an
Ordinance to amend the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, and
I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not
contrary to the Governor's instructions.
2.
Under section 26 of the principal Ordinance it is
lawful for any officer of the police to apprehend any
per son who may be charged with, or whom he may reasonably
suspect of being guilty of, any offence without any warrant
and whether he has seen such offence
for that purpose,
committed or not.
3.
There are a number of cases in which it becomes
necessary to summarily arrest undesirable, and sometimes
dangerous, persons in who se case deportation from the Colony
is a more appropriate remedy than any specific charge before
a magistrate.
14.
The Deportation ordinances of 1917, 1929 and 1931,
provide for the issue of warrants by His Excellency the