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CONFIDENTIAL

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Commonwealth Immigrants

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Enable Her Majesty to provide for restricting the immigration of certain British subjects, British protected persons and citizens of the Republic of Ireland, and for the deportation of such subjects, persons and citizens in certain cases; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

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E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

A.D. 1955

1.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, Her Majesty Restriction of may by Order in Council make such provision as appears to immigration

and provision Her to be expedient in the public interest (including the general for deporta- interests of the citizens or inhabitants of Commonwealth countries tion. outside the United Kingdom)—

(a) for restricting the entry into the United Kingdom by sea or air of British subjects born outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man; (b) for the imposition upon such subjects, on their entry into the United Kingdom as aforesaid, of conditions as to the period for which they may remain therein [or] their employment or occupation therein [or other matters specified in the Order in Council], and for the revocation or variation of such conditions by the Secretary of State;

(c) for authorising the Secretary of State, in such circum- stances as may be specified in the Order in Council, to make an order (in this Act referred to as a deportation order) requiring any such subject to leave and thereafter remain out of the United Kingdom.

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