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Objects and Reasons.
1. This Ordinance repeals the Passports Ordinance, 1923, which delegated to the Governor in Council the power of regulating the admission of persons into the Colony and substitutes new provisions enacted by the legislature which are derived mainly, as to Part I, from the Travellers Restriction Ordinance. 1915, which is to be repealed by another Ordinance, and from the Straits Settlements Passengers Restriction Ordinance No. 169 as amended by the Straits Settlements Ordinance No. 1 of 1932, and as to Part II, from the existing Passport Regulations which were published by Government Notification No. 361 in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 10th June, 1932.
2. A Table of Correspondence is attached, which shows in greater detail the sources of the various sections and sub-sections.
March, 1934.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General
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