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Mr. Duncan.
I think you should see this,
particularly as you were largely concerned in the case which has given rise to the proposed
amending Ordinance. My own opinion is that Mr.
surfing to anything 1.0. may say in sply, that Gent's draft should meet the case, and the Governor
subfurd
should be told he can proceed.
It seems that the
The Governor
Governor's right to deport a person to his own country if he would be in peril there has been seriously questioned, despite the United Kingdom
would decisions which the Ordinance wit apparently do
no more than apply in Hong Kong. cannot properly take power to put the deportee on a ship going to any other country, nor can the Government trust him to go voluntarily to some other place where he would be safe if they have no power to remove him forcibly, and if the deportation order is not obeyed, it is unreasonable to expect Hong Kong to keep the deportee in prison indefinitely at Government expense.
The question is admittedly difficult,
but if Hong Kong take this power the United Kingdom practice being explained to them) its very existence would probably induce undesirables to leave the Colony before the necessity to use
it arises.
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M. Rokits-Wraz.
Jape that we should write to the
11.0. as ui Mr. Grut's draft attached. I should like to see their reply.
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