Deportation powers not new
| (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON. ! A discretion to deport any. ■ immigrant convicted of an ? imprisonable offence had been vested in the Minister of Immigration for some time the National Partyspokesman on immigration (Mr J. B. Gordon) said. “The editor of the New’ Zealand Law Journal (Mr J. Pope) is not correct in thinking that this is a new power. Under both the Aliens Act, 1948, and the Immigration Act, 1964. provisions exist for the exercise of such a I
. discretion.” Mr Gordon said. ,! “The National Party pro- , posal only extends this dis- . cretion by making the habitually offending immigrant, in I the first two years of his residence in New Zealand, subject to deportation after due process of the law has been exhausted if he commits im- ; prisonable offences. “The Minister must be assumed to be a responsible 1 person. His discretion has not, and will not, be exercised lightly, but only after i full consideration of the | • facts.” Mr Gordon said.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33933, 28 August 1975, Page 19
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166Deportation powers not new Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33933, 28 August 1975, Page 19
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