CO129-604-7 Expulsion of Undesirables Ordinance 1949 19-8-1949 - 16-12-1949 — Page 10

effective immigration control in relation to Chinese

been feasible at the end of the war, and I realise that,

notwithstanding the partial immigration control now

applied to Chinese, there is need for some simple and

therefore inevitably somewhat summary procedure for

relieving the pressure of population in the Colony by

expelling undesirables.

3.

I should, however, not wish the procedure

provided for in this Ordinance to be used except in an

emergency, or for the Ordinance to be kept in force,

when the conditions of over-population cease to prevail,

merely as a convenient method for securing the deportation

of a person. There is of course provision in Section

14 (1) (a) for suspending the operation of the Ordinance

and no doubt you will review the position from time to

time. I should, in any case, be grateful if you would

report in a year's time what use has been made of the

Ordinance and whether you consider its continued operation

is justified.

40 I attach a note by my Legal Adviser raising a

number of points in the Ordinance on which I should be

grateful to have your comments in due course.

I have, etc.

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