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The Tribunal is required to embody its advice in a report to the Governor i Council. Upon consideration of the report of u Tribunal on a case referred tu it under regulation 6(1), the Governor in Council will determine whether to issu a deportation order under the Deportation of Aliens Ordinance and, where such an order is issued, whether it would be contrary to the public interest that the person concerned should be at large in the Colony of his deportation is impractic able (regulation 11(1)). When the Governor in Council is considering a ax What was referred to a Tribunal under regulation 6(2), the only question for determination will be whether it would be contrary to the public interest that the person against whom the deportation order is in force should be at large in the Colony if his deportation is impracticable (regulation 11(2)). Regulation 12 empowers the Governor to make a detention order in relation to a person agaian whom a deportation order is in force if the Governor in Council has determined that such person should not be at large in the Colony if bis deportation b impracticable. The impracticability of deportation will be determined by b Governor in Council under regulation 12(1)(8) in each particular case, unless the person concerned is one of those persons whose deportation is declared to be impracticable by a declaration for the time being in force under regulation 4 (regulation 121X2)).

3. The procedure of a Tribunal and lis powers with regard to obtaining cvidenco and the conduct of proceedings are provided for in regulations 13 and 14, and provision is made for the case of every detained person to be revismed by a Tribunal at or before the end of each period of twelve months durin which such person is detained (regulation 19.

4. Where a person is detained under a warrant issued by the Govertor under the Deportation of Aliens Ordinance, warrants for further detention vill in future be issued by the President of a Tribunal (regulation 7), and the President of a Tribunal and the Commissioner of Police are empowered by regulation 8 to grant bail to persons in custody.

5. Under regulation 9, a claim not to be an alien will as hitherto be investigated by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, but a Tribunal may me further investigation of the claim where the Secretary for Chinese Affairs is of opinion that the claimant is an alien, and the Tribunal is enjoined to embody its own opinion in its report to the Governor în Council.

¤. Regulation 16 provides for the suspension of the long procedure under the Deportation of Aliens Ordinence during the continuance in force of the regulations.

7. Regulation 17 cuables the Governor to suspend derzation orders and deportation orders and also enables the Governor in Caumell to revoke any such suspension,

8. Regulations 13 to 22 inclusive deal with the management and staffing of places of detention and with discipline, and regulation 26 saves appoioworok made under regulation 8 of the 1956 Regulations.

9. Regulations 24 and 25. respectively, make provision in relation to deportation cases pending at the commencement of these regulations and in relation to persons detained at that time, and regulation 27 revokes the 198 Regulations and the rules made thereunder.

(Secretariat CR1/2706/580)

HOLIDAYS ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 149).

GENERAL HOLIDAYS Order, 1962.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Holidays Ordinance, the Governor has made the following Order-

1. This Order may be cited as the General Holidays Order, 1962. Citation.

2.

In the year 1963 the Birthday of Her Majesty the Queen is to The Queen's be kept on the 26th day of April, 1963.

Birthday. 1963.

7th June, 1962.

(Secretariat GR110/62)

By Command,

Chance Burgess

Colonial Secretary.