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Summary Deportation during Peace Proclama- tion of persons in interests of public safety or order.

Summary Deportation Order under this section to be

reported to .. Secretary of State.

Form of

Deportation Order.

Amendment

of section 6

of Ordinance No. 9 of 1912.

Repeal of section 7 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1912 and

substitution of new section therefor.

Repeal of section

12 (1) of Ordinance No. 9 of 1912 and substitution

of new sub- section therefor.

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5.-(1.) Whenever during the continuance of any Proclamation issued under the provisions of the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, it is reprosented by the Captain Superin- tendent of Police to the Governor-in- Council on written information that the removal from the Colony of any person not being a natural born subject of His Majesty whether such person has been naturalized or not is desirable for the public safety or in the interests of the peace or good order of the Colony, the Governor- in-Council may if it appears to him, after making enquiry, to be desirable for the public safety or in the interests of the peace or good order of the Colony that such persou should be deported from the Colony summarily issue Ü Deportation Order

against such person.

(2.) Every Deportation Order issued under the provisious of this section shall be forthwith reported to the Secretary of State.

(3.) Any Deportation Order issued under the provisions of this section shall be in the Form No. 7 in the Schedule."

3. Section 6 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1912, is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following words at the end of the section :-

"Where the period of banishment is for life such

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period shall be deemed to exceed fifteen years

"within the meaning of that expression in " section 8."

4. Section 7 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1912, is hereby repealed and the following section substituted there- for:

"7. So soon as may conveniently be after the issue of any Deportation Order issued under the pro- visions of this Ordinance the Captain Superin- tendent of Police shall cause a copy of such Deportation Order to be served on the person against whom it is made and such person shall be then taken into custody if on bail or other- wise at large and if already in custody such person shall remain in custody and shall be in either case deemed to be under lawful arrest and in lawful custody until he leaves the Colony."

5. Section 12 (1) of the Deportation Ordinance, 1912, is hereby repealed and the following sub-section is substituted therefor :-

12.-(1.) For the purpose of any prosecution under the provisions of this Ordinance an order of banishment purporting to be signed or a copy of an order of banishment purporting to be certified by a Clerk of Councils of this Colony or by the Colonial Secretary or Acting Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements or by a British Resident or Secretary to Resident in any of the Federated Malay States or by the British Adviser in Kedah, Kelantan or Perlis or by the General Adviser in Johore or by the British Agent in Trengganu or by such other person or persons as may be at any time by notification published in the Gazette declared by the Governor-or-Council duly authorized to sign an order of banishment or to certify a copy of an order of banishment for the purposes of any prosecution under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed to be sufficient proof, until the contrary is shewn, of the fact and date of such banishment."

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