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OBJECTS and REASONS.
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The object of this Bill is twofold. In the first place it has been pointed out that the provisions of section 4 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1913, might pos- sibly be construed to apply to British subjects. this was not the intention contemplated by the section, the present B111lays down with precision the cases in which the provisions of the section do not apply.
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It will be observed that the Bill provides that the provisions of section 4 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1913, shall not apply to those classes of persons for which under the provisions of sections 3,5,9, and 11 the Deportation Ordinances of 1911 and 1913 specifi- cally provide. The Bill specifically prescribes that, subject to these exceptions and to the further exception mentioned later, the provisions of section 4 of the Ordi- nance shall not be applicable to persons who in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council are natural-born or naturalized subjects of His Majesty.
The second object of the Bill is to add to the powers of deportation which already exist under the local law, the additional power to deport a class of persons with which it has not been hitherto possible to deal in any way under the present enactments. This class con- sists of persons who although born in the Colony are not of British parentage on either side and the members of which are in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony, a limitation being added that these new provisions shall not apply to any person who has obtained a certificate of his British birth or who is registered in a British
Consulate in China as a person entitled to British
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