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Explanatory Memorandun.
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This Bill will consolidate and revise the immigration
and deportation laws. It will make the following changes.
2.
Control of immigration.
Permission to enter Hong Kong may now be refused on
any of the grounds set out in section 11 of the Immigration
(Control and Offences) Ordinance. In practice, permission is
rost commonly refused on the ground that an immigrant does not
have a valid passport bearing a visa which is valid for entry
into Hong Kong or a valid permit issued under the Ordinance.
At present, section 11 only empowers the Director of Iunigration
to refuse to grant a perrit to enter on listed grounds. It is
now considered that his discretion should not be fettered and
that he should be able to grant or refuse an entry permit to
any immigrant on any ground, as is usual in most countries.
Landing conditions.
3.
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Irmigration officers will continue to have power to
impose any conditions when permission to land is granted.
power to vary conditions and to inpose further conditions is
also retained. Since certain landing conditions regulating
the taking of employment and other matters are invariably
imposed in the case of many irvai grants, the Bill enables the
Governor in Council to prescribe them by regulation (clause 55)
and deens permission to land to be subject to the prescribed
conditions (clause 5(2)). This new provision will reduce
the number of conditions which must now be imposed by
stamping an immigrant's travel document. He will be notified
of these standard conditions by printed notices handed to
him on entry.
The Governor is also given power to cancel or vary
landing conditions and to inpose new conditions by order
applying to individual irnigrants or to immigrants of any
specified class or description.
(Clause 5(4)).
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