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See also:EXPULSION (See also:Lat. expulsio, from expellere) , the See also:act of See also:driving out, or of removing a See also:person from the membership of a See also:body or the holding of an See also:office, or of depriving him of the right of attending a See also:meeting, &c. In the See also:United See also:Kingdom the See also:House of See also:Commons can by See also:resolution expel a member. Such resolution cannot be questioned by any See also:court of See also:law. But expulsion is only resorted to in cases where members are guilty of offences rendering them unfit for a seat in the House, such as being in open See also:rebellion, being guilty of See also:forgery, See also:perjury, See also:fraud or See also:breach of See also:trust, misappropriation of public See also:money, corruption, conduct unbecoming the See also:character of an officer and a See also:gentleman, &c. It is customary to See also:order the member, if absent, to attend in his See also:place, before an order is made for his expulsion (see May, See also:Parliamentary Practice, 1906, p. 56 seq.). Municipal corporations or other See also:local See also:government bodies have no See also:express See also:power to expel a member, except in such cases where the law declares the member to have vacated his seat, or where power is given by See also:statute to declare the member's seat vacant. In the cases of See also:officers and servants of the See also:crown, See also:tenure varies with the nature of the office. Some officials hold their offices ad vitam See also:aut culpam or dum bene se gesserunt, others can be dismissed at any See also:time and without See also:reason assigned and without See also:compensation. In the See also:case of membership of a voluntary association (See also:club,. &c.) the right of expulsion depends upon the rules, and must be exercised in See also:good faith. Courts of See also:justice have See also:jurisdiction to prevent the improper expulsion of the member of a voluntary association where that member has a right of See also:property in the association. In the case of meetings, where the meeting is one of a public body, any person not a member of the body is entitled to be See also:present only on sufferance, and may be expelled on a resolution of the body. In the case of See also:ordinary public meetings those who convene the meeting stand in the position of licensors to those attending and may. revoke the See also:licence and expel any person who creates disorder or makes himself otherwise objectionable. Expulsion of Aliens.—Under the See also:Naturalization Act of 1870, the last of the See also:civil disqualifications affecting aliens in See also:England was removed. The See also:political disqualifications which remained only applied to electoral rights. In the very exceptional cases in which it was retained in the statute See also:book, expulsion was considered to have fallen into desuetude, but it has been revived by the Aliens Act of 1905 (5 Edw. VII. c. 13). Under this act See also:powers are given to the secretary of See also:state to make an order requiring an See also:alien to leave the United Kingdom within a time fixed by the order and thereafter to remain outside the United Kingdom, subject to certain conditions, provided it is certifiedto him that the alien has been convicted of any See also:felony or See also:misdemeanour or other offence for which the court has power to impose imprisonment without the See also:option of a See also:fine, &c., or that he has been sentenced in a See also:foreign See also:country with which there is an See also:extradition treaty, for a See also:crime not being an offence of a political character. There are also provisions applicable within one See also:year. after the alien has entered the United Kingdom in the case of pauper aliens. Precautions are taken to prevent, as far as possible, any abuse of the power of expulsion. Under the See also:French law of expulsion (Decefnber 3, 1849) there are no such precautions, the See also:minister of the interior having an See also:absolute discretion to order any foreigner as a measure of public policy to leave French territory and in fact to have him taken immediately to the frontier. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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