Repeal and
(b) "British subject", "British protected person" and "foreign country" have the meanings attributed thereto by the British Nationality Act, 1948."
3.
Section & of the principal Ordinance as substituted by replacement the Deportation of Aliens (Amendment) Ordinance, 1948, is
hereby repealed and replaced by the following section :--
of section
# of the
principal
Ordinance.
"Competent 8. (1) A competent authority upon being satis- authority fied-
may make
deportation
order against
certain alien convicta,
(4) that an alien stands sentenced to a sentence of not less than six months' imprisonment for one or more of the offendes specified in the Second Schedule; and
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(b) that after taking into consideration any remission to which such alien pay be entitled he will still be required to servo for such offence a sentence of imprisonment of not less than fourteen days after service upon him of a notification under sub-section (7) hereof;
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shall unless the Governor otherwise directs order that such alien shall be deported for life.
fied-
(2) A competent authority upon being satis-
(a) that an alien stands sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one month or more and less than six months for an offence specified in the Second Schedule; and
(b) that after taking into consideration any remission to which such alien may be entitled he will still be required to serve for such offence a sentence of imprisonment of not less than fourteen days after service upon him of a notification under sub-section (7) hereof;
shall unless the Governor otherwise directs order that such alien be deported for ten years.
(3) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (2) hereof a competent authority, upon being satisfied-
(a) that an alien has been convicted of an offence, whether or not such offence is an offence specified in the Second Schedule ;
(b) that after taking into consideration any remission to which such alien may be entitled he will still be required to serve for such offence a sentence of imprisonment of not less than fourteen days after service upon him of a notification under sub-section (7) hereof; and
(c) either that a term of imprisonment of more than eighteen months has been applied for such offence or that the term of imprisonment applied for such offence is such that it will together with any other terms of imprisonment applied for any offence of which such alien has at any time been convicted by any competent court or magistrate in the Colony aggregate to more than eighteen months;
shall unless the Governor otherwise directs order that such alien be deported for a period of ten years.
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(4) If it appears to the Registrar of the Supreme Court or to a magistrate that by reason of a sentence or sentences of imprisonment imposed on any person by the court or by such magistrate as the case may be, and by reason of the sentences imposed on such person for previous convictions which have been proved or admitted by such person in the proceedings before such court or magistrate the competent authority would, if such person were an alien, be required by the provi sions of sub-section (3) to order his deportation, the Registrar or the magistrate shall cause to be forwarded to the Commissioner of Prisons together with the certificate of sentence or warrant of commitment a certificate of such previous convictions in Form No. 10 or No. 11 of the First Schedule hereto as the case may by.
(s) A certificate in the form prescribed by sub- section (4) purporting to be signed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court or a magistrate as the case may be shall unless it be shown that it was not signed by such Registrar or magistrate he sufficient evidence for the purposes of this section of the facts therein stated.
(6) A certificate of sentence purporting to be signed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court and a warrant of commitment purporting to be signed by the magistrate shall unless it be shown that it was not