CO129-548-6 Immigration and Passports Ordinance 1934 18-5-1934 - 24-6-1934 — Page 14

Please quote:- GEN/33/9/2.

Ansel

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Aliens Department,

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RECEIVED

13 NOV 1934

C. O. REGY

Dear Cowell,

RECEIVED

15 NOV 1934

C. O. I. Y

Oth November, 1934.

We are sending an official reply to the Colonial

[4] office letter of 8th August (33800/7/34) regarding the

and

[2] proposed Ordinance to regulate the entry and departure of

persons into and out of the colony of Hong Kong, indicating

that we have no observations to offer.

We think it desirable, however, to point out in

connection with sections 3(3) and 4(1) that a person may

not be a national of the country in which he was born and

probably would not be where the nationality law of the

country is based on the jus sanguinis and not the jus soli.

If he is not a national of it he should not be repatriated

to it without the consent of the government of the country.

In these circumstances it is suggested that it would be

desirable to omit "country of birth" from the Ordinance and

to limit the powers vested in the police officer to returning

the alien to the country of which he is a national or to a

port/

H. R. Cowell, Esq., C.M.G.