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determine that practice or procedure for them in advance.

It does not direct that statements of absent unidentified

informers should be acted on, or that witnesses should

not be cross-examined or even that counsel are to be

excluded. To do so would, perhaps, add substance to

the criticism that the judiciary have been made part

of the machinery of executive action. Cases of

deportation proceedings against British subjects are

extremely rare. The few cases that occur are all

reported to the Secretary of State (See section 13 of Ordinance No. 10 of 1886, superseded by section 5 of Ordinance No.9 of 1912, superseded by section 14 of Ordinance No.25 of 1917 and extended by section 7 of Ordinance No.7 of 1931).

(sd.) C. G. Alabaster.

Attorney General.

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