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Any communication on the subject of this letter should be addressed to-
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE
HOME OFFICE,
LONDON, S.W.I.
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418,469/8.
HOME OFFICE,
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- 9 NOV 1933
WHITEHALL.
8th November, 1933.
C. O. REGY
20
Sir,
With reference to your letter (13790/33) of the 16th August
last covering a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong
Kong regarding the proposed amendment of the Hong Kong
Deportation Ordinance, 1917, I am directed by Secretary Sir John
Gilmour to say, for the information of Secretary Sir Philip
Cunliffe-Lister, that he has no observations to offer on the
amendment proposed in section 5 of the above mentioned ordinance,
but the addition to section 6 (1)(a) of the concluding words
against him" is not in Sir John
Gilmour's opinion free from objection, and he has some difficulty
in understanding how they would assist the Governor in dealing
with such cases as that of Nguyen Ai Kwok.
"notwithstanding
As Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister is aware, it is not the
practice of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom to use
deportation powers in order to send a person to a country whose
Government has requested the extradition of that person, and the
principle that deportation should not be used where extradition
is the proper remedy is one to which considerable importance is
attached. On the other hand there would appear to be no reason
why the power to deport an alien who has been convicted of an
offence against the law of the country and has been recommended
by a court for deportation, or whose deportation is deemed to be
conducive to the public good, should be qualified or expressly
safeguarded/
The Under Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE.
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