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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 2, 1931.

Repeal of s. 8 of

Ordinance No. 25 of 1917.

Amendment

of s. 9

of Ordinance

No. 25 of 1917.

Amendment

of s. 10

of Ordinance

No. 25 of 1917.

Amendment

of s. 12

Exclusion of

(2) No deportation order may be issued against a British subject unless he shall have been examined in accordance with the provi- sions of section 3A and unless such examina- tiou shall have taken place in the presence of a judge in chambers.

(3) In such eases the report shall be signed and transmitted by the judge and not by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The opinion required of the judge in such report shall be his opinion whether or not the allegations in the fourth question are well founded in fact.

4A. No steps or proceedings whatsoever necessity for other than those expressly specified in this steps not

Ordinance shall be necessary to the validity of expressly provided for. any deportation order made or purporting to

have been made under this Ordinance.

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proceedings to be no bar

4B. No proceedings whatsoever connected deportation in any manner with any consideration or inquiry under the provisions of this Ordinance, to subse- or with any other consideration or inquiry with quent

a view to deportation made before or after the deportation

commencement of this Ordinance under the proceedings. provisions of any other enactment, shall be any bar to any subsequent consideration or inquiry under the provisions of this Ordinance or to the making of any deportation order thereon.

Court or magistrate

4C. If any court or magistrate has con- victed any alien of any offence, the court or magistrate may recommend that a deportation deportation. order should be made in his case either in

addition to or in lieu of sentence.

may recommend

3. Section 8 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1917, is repealed.

4. In section 9 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1917, the following words are repealed :---

"either" and "virtue of" in line 2;

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For by virtue of the provisions of section 8 of this Ordinance or of the provisions of section 11 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1912," in lines 4, 5 and 6;

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or at any time contrary to the provisions of section 8 of this Ordinance or to the provisions of section 11 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1912," in lines 9, 10, 11 and 12.

5 In section 10 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1917, the following words are repealed

"either" and "virtue of" in line 3;

For by virtue of the provisions of section 8 of this Ordinance, or of the provisions of section 11 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1912," in lines 5, 6 and 7.

6. Section 12 of the Deportation Ordinance, 1917, is amended by the repeal of sub-section (3) thereof and by of Ordinance the addition of the following words at the end of sub-

No. 25 of

1917.

section (4) thereof :-

"Also any indorsement on any detention warrant issued under this Ordinance, 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."

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