CO129-582-2 Vagrancy Amendment Ordinance 1939 1-5-1939 - 19-12-1939 — Page 25

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Emergency Regulations on the Commissioner of

Police or any police officer authorised by him

are limited to workless aliens.

3. I agree with your view that it is

difficult to justify the provisions of the

Emergency Regulations except as an emergency

measure. As regards aliens, the Deportation

of Aliens Ordinance appears to provide powers

to deport aliens whose deportation the Governor

deems

in Council claims to be conducive to the public

(itt be desirable to introduce good, but if you consider/a procedure, by which

such towers in respect of aliens who are destitute

should be exercised only upon an order of a Court

should not wish to raise any of Justice, desirana, I see no objection. I

assume that such provisions would, insofar as

destitute aliens are concerned, be instead of, and

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general

not in addition to, the penal

powers conferred by

Section 3 of Ordinance 39 of 1935.

4. I also assume that vou do not propose

to