CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8] — Page 527

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An Ordinance to amend the Deportation Ordinances, 1912-1914.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and con- -sent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows ; - -

nd construct- tion.

Power to order

hat a deportee

11 depart by a

barticular ship.

Madment of rd.9 of 1912,

4(12) (e), as acted by ord. of 1914,8.2.

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Deportation Ordin- -ance, 1915, and shall be read and construed as one with the Deportation Ordinances, 1912-1914, and the said Ordinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Deportation Ordinances, 1912-1915.

2.(1). Whenever a deportation order shall have been issu- -ed against any person it shall be lawful for the Governor, by order under the hand of the Colonial Secretary, to do all or any of the following thing;-

(a). To order that the person against whom the de- -portation order has been issued shall depart from the Colony by a particular ship.

(b). In case it may in the opinion of the Governor be

impracticable or inexpedient that such person should depart from the Colony by any ship by which he has been ordered to depart to substi- -tute as often as may be necessary another ship at the ship by which such person shall depart from the Colony.

(c). To extend from time to time the time within

which such person shall depart from the Colony.

(2). Any order made under paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) of this section shall be sufficient authority to all police officers and to the master and crew of the ship to use such force and retraint as may be necessary in order to carry out such order.

(3). Any such endorsement may be endorsed on the deportation order and may be in the form in the schedule hereto or as near thereto as the circumstances may permit.

3. Paragraph (e) of sub-secti (12) of section 4 of the

Deportation Ordinance, 1912, as enacted by section 2 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1914, is amended by the omission of the words "or is registered in a British Consulate in China as a person entitled to British protection in China", in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth lines of the said paragraph.

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