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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 101. The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 19th March, 1931 :—

C S.O. 1068/15 Part II.

[No. 20-6.1.31.-5.]

A BILL

Short title.

Repeal of

s. 3 of Ordi- nance No.

25 of 1917, as amended by ss. 2 and 3 of Ordinance No. 34 of 1929, and of s. 4 of Ordinance No. 25 of 1917, and substitution

of new sections.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to

Deportation.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Deportation. Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

2. Section 3 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1917, as amended by sections 2 and 3 of the Deportation Amend- ment Ordinance, 1929, and section 4 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1917, are repealed and the following sections are substituted therefor :-

Deportation

Order against an alien.

Summary procedure.

Deportation

against an

3.--(1) The Governor in Council may at any time summarily issue a deportation order against any person whom he finds to be an alien :-

() if in the opinion of the Governor in Council he has been deported or banished from the United Kingdom, from any British possession or from any territory which is under His Majesty's protection, or in respect of which a mandate is being exercised by the Government of any part of His Majesty's dominions; or (b) if the alien has been convicted in the

Colony of any offence; or

(e) in any special case not falling under paragraph (a) or (b) of this sub- section, if the Governor in Council deems it to be conducive to the public good to make summarily a deporta- tion order against the alien.

(2) The Governor in Council may also at Order any time issue a deportation order against any alien. Long person whom he finds to be an alien if upoù any inquiry in the manner prescribed in sec- tion 3 A he is of opinion that the alien should be deported.

procedure.

Deportation Order against alien. Schedule Form No. 7A. Arrest, detention and inquiry, Schedule Form No. 1.

(3) Any deportation order issued under the provisions of this section may be in Form No. 7A in the Schedule.

3A.-(1) The Governor may whenever it shall appear to him that there are reasonable grounds for inquiry as to whether any person should be deported, issue a warrant in Form No. 1 in the Schedule authorising the arrest of such person and his detention for a period not exceeding fourteen days.

(2) Any person arrested under such war- raut may be detained in the custody of any officer referred to in the said warrant and may be transferred from the custody of such officer to any other such officer as often as may be desirable.

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