CO129-530-9 Deportation Amendment Ordinance- 1931 2-4-1931 - 14-12-1931 — Page 7

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X 23836/23

*18,21,22 and 23 on

28132/27 S.S.

Xin 22 on 28132/2,

X72773/30.

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made against the person whom it is proposed to

deport and the power of deciding whether a

deportation order should be made could still

rest with you in Executive Council, but if you

decided to act contrary to the opinion expressed

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in the report a course which you would adopt

only for very strong reasons and in the most

exceptional circumstances the matter should

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be reported to me with full particulars.

#X

No immediate action was taken on

X

these instructions and the next development seems

to have been the 1927-28 correspondence on a

Straits Settlements file regarding Methods of

Counteracting Revolutionary Propaganda. In

reply to a request from the Governor for

fuller details of the lines on which it was

suggested that the judicial enquiry should

proceed he was sent a copy of the draft of a

Deportation Ordinance which had been prepared

for Kenya and "which, so far as local conditions

allow, might serve as a model for the machinery

of judicial enquiry". This is the draft in

6015/24 Kenya, which seems never to have been

in Kenya introduced

X

for the reason given in X 10341/27).

There was further delay and the

matter was not dealt with in the amending

Ordinance No. 34 of 1929.* A Committee was

appointed by the Governor to consider the

matter and the Duke of Devonshire's instructions

were finally carried out by Ordinance 7 of 1931.

(The 1923 instructions were not referred to in

forwarding