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provision inapplicable to persons who have been expelled from a territory to which they belong.
Second, Sir, I move amendment of paragraph (g) of clause 4 by deletion of paragraph (g) and by the substitution therefor of the following paragraph reading as follows:-
Ordinance No. 7 of 1889.
(g) has been convicted by a competent court outside the Colony of an offence which if committed in the Colony would constitute any of the offences specified in the First Schedule to the Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889; or".
Sir, the reasons for this amendment to paragraph (g), or sub- stitution of paragraph (g), is this: in its present form paragraph (g) suggests that a person may be deemed undesirable even if he has the means to support himself and his dependents. Adequate provision for cases of incapacity for self-support is made by paragraphs (b) and (c) of clause 4. The substitution proposed makes provision to empower the expulsion of persons convicted of serious offences elsewhere and the Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889, provides a convenient list of such offences.
These were agreed to.
Council then resumed.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL reported that the Expulsion of Undesirables Bill, 1949, had passed through Committee with two amendments and moved the Third reading.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read
a Third time and passed into law.
EMERGENCY REGULATIONS
(AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL, 1949.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the Second reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance further to amend the Emergency Regula- tions Ordinance, 1922."
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a Second time.
Council then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.
Council then resumed.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL reported that the Emergency Regulations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, 1949, had passed through Committee without amendment and moved the Third reading.
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