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a much lighter penalty than that provided by section
13 of the Deportation of Aliens Ordinance, No.39 of
1935.
4.
Although there is provision as stated above in
the legislation of this Colony for the deportation of
destitute British subjects who do not belong to the Colony
and also for the expulsion of immigrants who enter the
Colony in contravention of the Immigration and Passports
Ordinance, there is no provision except in the Emergency
Regulations providing for the expulsion of those aliens
who are not required to have passports or travel papers,
who do not belong by birth or residence to the Colony,
who pass in freely whenever they desire, who are destitute
and unable to find work and who therefore can look only
to public funds or private charity for their subsistence.
Convicted alien mendicants can be deported under the
Deportation of Aliens Ordinance, No.39 of 1935, but it is
considered more suitable in most cases that mendicants
should be expelled under the new provisions introduced
by this Bill.
5.
Clause 5 of the Bill adds the words "a mendicant
or a destitute" after the word "vagrant" in section 26 of
the 1897 Ordinance so as to bring mendicants and
destitutes within the scope of that section.
It is a
necessary corollary to give effect to sub-section (1) of
the new section 24A,
July, 1939.
C.G. ALABASTER
Attorney General.