CO129-587-15 Excess Population Reduction Committee Report- Chinese Immigration Bill 1-10-1940 - 6-1-1941 — Page 5

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Clause 16 is adapted from the S.S. Aliens Ordinance Chapter 90 as amended in 1938, and deals with restrictions on the entry of alien seamen.

Clause 17 applies the provisions of the Ordinance as far as is practicable to arrivals by air.

Clause 18 requires the Immigration

Officer to administer the Passport Office. Presumably this office will also deal with entry permits, frontier passes, etc.

Clause 19 is adapted from previous legislation and gives a general right to appeal.

Clause 20 authorises the Governor-in-Council

to make regulations.

Clause 21 is adapted from earlier legislation and gives powers of entry, search and arrest.

Clause 22 doubles the penalties under the 1934 Ordinance and gives power to forfeit security.

The remaining clauses repeal the 1934 Ordinance and postpone the commencement of the new Bill until proclaimed.

The telegram at 15 gives us some more

details which we had previously about the Bill, but it does not show that the information already received

important was incomplete in any sense, nor does it show that there is anything in the Bill to justify the representations made by the Chinese Ambassador and reported in the Foreign Office letter at 3. I suggest that we should send a copy of the telegram to Mr. Sterndale Bennett, together with copies of the legislation referred to therein, and say we have examined the Bill, but do not see any reason why we should ink the Governor to suspend publication any further. The she howork

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