CO129-548-6 Immigration and Passports Ordinance 1934 18-5-1934 - 24-6-1934 — Page 2

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9200.

29.5.34.

Submits Ordinance No.8 of 1934, Immigration and Passports.

Ordinance 35 of 1923 empowers the

Governor-in-Council to make passport regulations,

which were under Section 2(3) of the Ordinance

to be subject to review by the Legislative Council.

The regulations at present in force are those

appearing in Government Notice 361 of 1932. The

present Ordinance repeals the 1923 Ordinance and

enacts comprehensive immigration and landing

restrictions and passport regulations. The main

sources from which the provisions of the Ordinance

are drawn are:-

Part I. From the Travellers Restriction Ordinance

1915 which is repealed by the Registration of

Persons Ordinance (No.3 of 1934) and now under

and

consideration/from the Straits Settlements Passengers

Restriction Ordinance No.169 (as amended by Straits Settlements Ordinance 1/32) Part II from the present

Passport Regulations (vide supra) which are

followed closely with the exception of sections 11(2)

and 11(3) which are new and section (12) in which

section 4 of the present passport regulations is

expanded on the lines of section 2 of Straits

Settlements Ordinance 1 of 1932:

and Part III from Hong Kong Ordinances 19 of 1915 and

35 of 1923, and from the present Passport Regulations.

This is a "reserved"Ordinance, and if and when it is

eventually sanctioned we shall have to take care to

adopt the right formula in informing the Governor.

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