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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 253.-The following Bill is published for general information:-

C.S.O. 1068/15. C. Pt. II.

[No. 9/32:-29.4.35.—4.]

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Deportation

Order

against

any alien. Summary procedure.

Deportation Order against an alien. Long procedure.

Deportation

Order against

alien.

Schedule Form No. 7.

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to

the deportation of undesirable aliens.

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 of Aliens Ordinance, 1935.

2. In this Ordinance,

(a) “Alien” means a person who is not a British subject. (b) "British subject"

nationality.

means a person of British

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 :-

(a) 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

(c) 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 deportation order against the alien.

(2) The Governor in Council may also at any time issue a deportation order against any person whom he finds to be an alien if upon any inquiry in the manner prescribed in section 4 he is of opinion that the alien should be deported.

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