1948-HKRS29-8-15_Part04 — Page 20

HONG KONG

10.458 or 1948.

I ussent.

Машована

Governor

28th October, 1948.

An Ordinance to amend the Deportation of Aliens Ordinance,

1936.

[29th October, 1948.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice

and consent of the Legislative Council thereof;

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Deportation of Aliens short title, (Amondment) Ordinance, 1948, and shall be read as one with

the Deportation of Aliens Ordinance, 1985, hereinafter referred to ordinance as the principal Ordinance.

No. 39 of 1935

2. The following section is hereby substituted for section 8 Repeal and of the principal Ordinance:-

"Court o magistrate may make deportation order or may re- comthead deporation.

then-

replacement of section B of the

(1) Upon conviction of an alien of an offence principal

(a) if, at the time of the commission of the offence other than an offence against sub-section (1) of section 13, such alien had not been resident in the Colony for a consecutive period of one year immediately preceding the commission of the offence, the court or magistrate may, either in addition to or in lieu of sentence make a deportation order against such alien; and

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(b) in any other case such court magistrate may recommend that a deportation order should be made either in addition to or in lieu of sentence.

Ordinance.