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(Cap. 1).

Committee of Review.

fit; and the Governor in Council may revoke any such direction if he is satisfied that the person to whom the detention order relates has failed to observe any condition so imposed or that it would be contrary to the public interest that the detention order should remain suspended.

(3) The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of section 16 of the Interpretation Ordinance.

5. (1) For the purpose of these regulations there shall be a Committee of Review or any number of such Committees. Any such Committee shall consist of a Chairman to be appointed by the Governor and two members of the panel appointed under paragraph (6) selected by the Colonial Secretary.

(2) The functions of any such Committee shall be to consider and make recommendations to the Governor in Council with respect to any objections against any detention order which are duly made to the Committee by the person to whom the order relates.

(3) The procedure of any such Committee in the carrying out of its functions shall be in accordance with any rules made under paragraph (4), or, where no such rule is applicable, as the Committee may in any particular case determine.

(4) The Governor in Council may make rules as to the procedure of such a Committee in the carrying out of its functions, and such rules shall contain provisions for enabling any person in respect of whom any such order is made to make objections against the order either in person or, with the leave of the Committee, by counsel or solicitor; and every such person shall be informed of his right to make objections under this regulation.

(5) It shall be the duty of the Chairman of a Committee to inform every person making objections of the grounds on which the detention order has been made against him, and to furnish him with such particulars as are, in the opinion of the Chairman, sufficient to enable him to present his case.

(6) The Governor may appoint such persons as he may think fit to be members of a panel for the purposes of this regula- tion.

manage

ment of

B. The Governor may give directions consistent with these Interna! regulations as to the internal management of and otherwise in connexion with any place of detention, and as to the discipline places of of persons detained therein.

detention

1, The case of every person detained under a detention order Review by shall be reviewed by the Governor in Council at or before the Governor

in Council. end of each period of six months during which such person is so detained.

8. The Governor may appoint a Superintendent and other Officers officers under the control of the Superintendent to effect the to be detention of detained persons in accordance with these regulations to effect and with directions given under regulation 6.

appointed

detention.

MANETE- ment. etc., of places of

$. (1) For the purposes of this regulation- "'officer'' means an officer appointed under regulation 8; "Superintendent" means the Superintendent appointed under detention.

regulation 8,

(2) The provisions of the Prisons Ordinance, 1954, and the (No. 17 Prison Rules, 1954, subject to such modifications as the Governor of 1954). may order and except as such provisions are inconsistent with the provisions of these regulations, shall apply, so far as the same are applicable, to the detention of detained persons for all purposes whatsoever as they apply to persons detained in prison under the provisions of the Deportation of Aliens Ordinance as (Cap. 240). if for the word or words in the first column of the Table hereunder were substituted the word or words opposite thereto in the second column of the said Table incorporating such grammatical varia- tions thereof as may be required.

First columE 15

Commissioner officer of the prison officer of the Prisons

Department prison officer prison prisoner

the Medical Officer

Second column Superintendent

officer

place of detention detained person

a medical officer authorized

by the Superintendent.