signed by such Registrar or magistrate be sufficient evidence for the purposes of this section of the facts therein stated.
(7) Whenever the competent authority is satisfied that he would be required by this section to order the deportation of any person if such person is an alien he shall notify such person by the notification in Form No. 12 in the First Schedule that the competent authority is proposing to order his deportation as an alien convict, to whom this section applies.
(8) A person who has received notification under sub-section (7) may within fourteen days from the receipt of such notification claim that he is not an alien or petition the Governor to exercise the power canferred by sub-section (10) by completing the appropriate portions of Form No. 12 and delivering such Form to the Superintendent of the prison where he is in custody.
(9) If the person receiving such notification as aforesaid duly claims that he is not an alien then, after investigation of such claim, opinions on the validity of such claim shall be given by the Attorney General and the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the claim together with such opinions shall be referred to the Governor.
(10) If the person receiving such notification petitions the Governor to exercise his powers under this sub-section such petition shall be forwarded to the Governor with the observations of the Attorney General and the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the Governor may if he considers that in all the circumstances of the case the alien should be permitted to remain in the Colony direct that no deportation order shall be made under this sertion against such alien.
(1) If the person receiving such notification neither claims that he is not an alien nor petitions the Governor under sub-section (10) or if every such claim or petition as may be lodged within due time is rejected then the competent authority shall proceed to make an order of deportation in Form No. 13. Such order, if made during the subsistence of any term of imprison- ment imposed on the person to whom it relates which
has not been remitted, shall take effect as on the day when such person is due to be released from such Imprisonment and subject us aforesaid shall authorize deportation as from the day upon which it is made,
(12) If a prisoner becomes due to be released from custody by reason of the expiration of any lawful Sentence of imprisonmem at a time when a claim not to be an alien or a petition to the Governor lodged under this section is still undetermined the Commissioner of Prisons shall notify the Governor accordingly and shall detain such person in his custody until directed by the Governor to release him therefrom or, in the event of on order for the deportation of such person being made, until he is removed therefrom by or by the direction of the Commissioner of Police in pursuance of such order.
(13) The notification provided for by sub- section (7) shall not be given until the time for any material appeal or review has expired and, if any material appeal or review has in the meanwhile become pending, such notification shall not be given until the determination of any such appeal or review. A notifica- tion given in contravention of this provision shall be a nullity but shall nor prejudice the giving of another valid notification. An appeal or review shall be deemed to be material to the giving of a notification to a particular person if as a result of such appeal or review a sentence of imprisonment, imposed by a competent court or magistrate in the Colony on such person might be affected.
(14) Nothing herein contained shall derogate from the power vested in the Governor in Council by section 3.
(15) The Governor in Council may by regula- tion amend the Second Schedule hereto.
(16) If the competent authority shall be a person other than the Commissioner of Prisons, the Commissioner shall transmit to the competent authority all documents and information relevant to the exercise of the powers and duties of such authority and shall afford to such authority every facility for inspection of prison registers and records and for interviewing any ponvict alien.