CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909 — Page 136

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to deport a prisoner from Hong Kong to the country to

which he belongs, i.e. it may be to some third coun-

try;

it appears however to Sir E. Grey, as at present

advised, that the powers of Sections 7 and 8 of the

Foreign Jurisdiction Act would be exhausted when the

sentence is served at Hong Kong, or when deportation

to Hong Kong takes place, and that those powers cannot

extend beyond the confines of that Colony.

Sir E. Grey is further of opinion that the best

means to attain the desired end would be to give the

Court at Shanghai power, when sending persons to Hong

Kong for imprisonment, to order that at the end of

their sentence they be not allowed to return to China,

1.8. that power should be given to the Court to make

an order of prohibition.

It would then be necessary

for contemporaneous legislation to take place at Hong

Kong, to the effect that when a person has been sent

from China to be imprisoned at Hong Kong, and has been

prohibited from returning to China, the Governor may

at the conclusion of such prisoner's sentence, and

provided that the prisoner does not belong to Hong

Kong

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