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CONFIDENTIAL

background of Her Majesty's Government's own

Immigration Bill which is still before Parliament

and the final form of which is only now emerging.

4.

Particular attention is drawn to the

following clauses of the Bill:

Clause 17(1)(c) This empowers the Governor

to order the removal from the Colony of any

person (including a citizen of the United

Kingdom and Colonies) who has been ordinarily

resident in Hong Kong for less than three year

and who appears to the Governor to be an un-

desirable immigrant.

The purpose of the

clause is to enable the Governor to remove

summarily relative newcomers to Hong Kong who

come to notice as undesirable persons only

after their arrival in the Colony. The

provision is an alternative to the powers

conferred by the United Kingdom Bill to curtail

the permitted stay of a "non-patrial" and in

the view of the Governor the provision is.

necessary because it is not the practice in

Hong Kong to put a limit on the stay of such

persons as, for example, United Kingdom belongers;

and it might subsequently be found necessary

in individual cases to curtail the stay of

persons in this category.

Clause 18 This empowers the Governor in Come

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