1950_EXPULSION_OF_UNDESIRABLES_ORDINANCE — Page 2

Expulsion of Undesirables.

[CAP. 242

common law or the erection state or condition whereof is prohibited by or constitutes a contravention of any enactment.

authority

undesirables

after a inquiry. 37 of 1950,

prescribed

3. The competent authority may, after such inquiry as Competent is hereinafter prescribed and after recording a finding that a may expel person is undesirable, make an order expelling such person from the Colony unless such person has satisfied the com- petent authority either that he is not an alien or that he has been ordinarily resident in the Colony for a period of ten years or more.

4.

Schedule,

Grounds a

upon which person may be

A person may be found to be an undesirable if he (a) does not have the means of subsistence and is dis- eased, maimed, blind, idiot, lunatic or decrepit and may be hindered by his state from earning a undesirable. livelihood; or

(b) is unable to show that he has in his possession the means of decently supporting himself and his dependants, if any until he obtains a livelihood; or (c) is a person likely to become a vagrant, beggar or a charge upon any public or private charitable institu- tion; or

(d) is a person suffering from a contagious disease which

is loathsome or dangerous; or

(e) has been removed from any country or state by the government authorities of any such country or state for any reason whatever; o

(f) is suspected of being likely to promote sedition or to cause a disturbance of the public tranquillity; or (g) has been convicted by a competent court outside the Colony of an offence which committed in the Colony would constitute any of the offences speci- fied in the First Schedule to the Chinese Extradition Ordinance; or

(h) is a prostitute, a person living on the earnings of prostitution or a person of known immoral character;

or

(i) is not in possession of such certificates as may be necessary under the quarantine regulations in force; or

(j) is prohibited from entering the Colony under any other enactment for the time being in force; or

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found to

be an

(Cap. 235).