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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 13, 1935.

Schedule

(3) In any proceedings under this Ordinance, an indorsement on any deportation order in Form No. 9 in the Form No. 9. Schedule, which purports to be signed by a police interpreter or by any police officer, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed sufficient evidence that the said deportation order was duly explained to the person named in such order as therein stated. Also any indorsement on any detention warrant purporting to state the date of arrest of any person under the said detention warrant, and purporting to be signed by the officer who made the arrest, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed sufficient evidence that the person referred to was arrested on the date stated.

Schedule Form No. 2.

Decision of Governor in Council to be final.

Report to Secretary of State.

Repeal of Ordinances Nos. 25 of 1917, 34 of 1929 and 7 of 1931.

(4) In any proceedings under this Ordinance, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be assumed that the finger prints on any deportation or banishment order which has been produced are those of the person against whom the order was made.

(5) If in any proceedings whatsoever relating to any deportation or banishment order or intended deportation order the person who has been deported or banished or whose deportation has been ordered or whose deportation is being considered alleges that he is a British subject the onus of proving such allegation shall be on such person.

(6) The answers given to the questions set out in Form No. 2 in the Schedule shall not be admissible in evidence in any proceedings except in proceedings under this Ordinance.

17. The decision of the Governor in Council as to whether under the provisions of this Ordinance any person is liable to deportation or should be deported shall be final and conclusive for all purposes whatsoever.

18. A report shall be made forthwith to the Secretary of State upon the making of any deportation order made under the provisions of section 3 (1) (c).

19. The following Ordinances are repealed :-

The Deportation Ordinance, 1917; the Deportation Amendment Ordinance, 1929; and the Deportation Amend- ment Ordinance, 1931.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 12th day of September, 1935.

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H. R. BUTTERS,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.