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following officers shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be sufficient evidence of the fact and date of such banishment :-
(a) the Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settle-
ments;
(b) the British Resident or the Secretary to the Resident in any of the Federated Malay States;
(c) the General Adviser in the State of Johore ; (d) the British Adviser in the States of Kedah,
Kelantan or Perlis ;
(e) the British Agent in the State of Trengganu ; (ƒ) any officer acting for any of the above officers; (g) the principal representative of the British
North Borneo Company in Borneo ;
(h) such other officers as may, before or after the date of such signature, be notified by the Governor in the Gazette for the purposes of this sub-section.
(4) In any proceedings under this Ordidance, an indor-
sement on any deportation order, in the form provided in
the Schedule as part of Forms Nos. 1 and 2, which pur- Schedule.
ports to be signed by a Government interpreter or by a Forms
police officer, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed Nos. 1 and 2.
sufficient evidence that the said deportation order was duly explained to the person named in such order as therein stated.
(5) In any proceedings whatsoever, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that the finger prints on any deportation order which has been produced are those of the person against whom the order was made.
(6) If in any proceedings whatsoever relating to any deportation order or intended deportation order the person who has been deported or whose deportation has been ordered or whose deportation is being considered alleges that he was a British subject at any given date the onus of proving such allegation shall be on such person.
(7) In any proceedings under this Ordinance, any infor- sement on any detention warrant issued under this Ordi- nance, purporting to state the date of arrest of any person under the said detention warrant, and purporting to be signed by the officer who made the arrest, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed sufficient evidence that the person referred to was arrested on the date stated.
16. No steps or proceedings whatsoever other than Exclusion of those expressly specified in this Ordinance shall be neces- necessity for sary to the validity of any deportation order made or steps not purporting to have been made under this Ordinance.
pro-
expressly provided for.
to be no
17. No proceedings whatsoever connected in any Previous manner with any consideration or inquiry under the deportation visions of this Ordinance, or with any other consideration proceedings or inquiry with a view to deportation made before or after bar to the commencement of this Ordinance under the provisions subsequent of any other enactment, shall be any bar to any subse- deportation quent consideration or inquiry under the provisions of this proceedings. Ordinance or to the making of any deportation order
thereon.
18. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to Amendment amend any of the forms in the Schedule or to prescribe of forms. any additional form to be used for the purpose of this Ordinance.
19. The Deportation Ordinance, 1917, and the tation Amendment Ordinance, 1929, are repealed.
Depor- Repeal of
Ordinances Nos. 25 of 1917, and
34 of 1929.
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