Short answer. Yes. Section 31 of the child protection law provides that when the offender is a foreigner, he shall be deported immediately after serving his sentence and forever barred from entering the country. The deportation follows the completed sentence — it is an added consequence, not a substitute for serving the penalty.
What the law says
When the offender is a foreigner, he shall be deported immediately after service of sentence and forever barred from entry to the country
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What Section 31 provides
The rule is one of the law's common penal provisions, applying across the offences it defines. It states that when the offender is a foreigner, he shall be deported immediately after service of sentence and forever barred from entry to the country. Three things follow from the wording. Deportation is mandatory — the section uses shall, not may. It happens after the sentence has been served, not in place of it. And the bar on returning is permanent, expressed as forever barred. So a foreign offender does not avoid the prison term by being removed; removal comes at the end of it.
It sits among other aggravations
Section 31 gathers several rules that raise the stakes for particular offenders. The penalty is imposed in its maximum period for someone previously convicted under the Act, for the responsible officer or employee of a corporation or partnership, for certain close relatives of the child, and for a public officer or employee. The foreigner-deportation rule is part of this same set of common penal provisions. It operates on top of whatever penalty the specific child-protection offence carries, rather than replacing the sentence with removal from the country.
What it depends on
The consequence turns on two things: a conviction under this Act for a child-protection offence, and the offender being a foreign national. Because it is triggered by the conviction, it presupposes that the criminal case has run its course and ended in a finding of guilt. The section does not decide the underlying case or lower the standard of proof; it prescribes what follows once guilt has been established and the sentence served. Absent a conviction under the Act, the deportation-and-bar rule has nothing to operate on.
What this means, and next steps
For a family pursuing such a case, or for a foreign national facing one, the deportation and permanent bar are fixed by statute rather than left to a court's discretion once the conditions are met. The mechanics that surround it — how the sentence is computed and how removal is carried out afterward — rest with the relevant authorities and are separate from the criminal trial itself. Anyone affected should take advice on the specific charge and the consequences attached to it, since what ultimately happens depends on the conviction the case produces rather than on any assumption made in advance.