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Authority for illegal immigrant to remain.
IMMIGRATION BILL
9. The Director may at any time authorize an immigrant who landed in Hong Kong unlawfully to remain in Hong Kong, subject to such conditions of stay as he thinks fit, whether or not such person has been convicted of that offence, and section 5(5) and (6) shall apply in the case of any such immigrant as it applies to an immigrant who has been given permission to land in Hong Kong under section 5(1).
Immigration signals etc.
PART III.
IMMIGRATION PROCEDURE.
10. (1) Subject to subsection (6), the captain of a ship shall, on the arrival of the ship in Hong Kong, hoist the prescribed immigration examination signal and shall keep the same hoisted until an immigration officer permits him to lower it.
(2) An immigration officer may, on the arrival of a ship in Hong Kong, require the captain-
(a) to anchor or moor the ship at such place as he may specify, being a place at which the captain considers that the ship may safely be moored or anchored;
(b) to keep the ship in such place so long as may be neces-
sary for the purposes of this Ordinance,
but a requirement under this subsection shall cease to have effect if the captain is required by or under any other Ordinance to move the ship to another place.
(3) Except with the permission of the Director, no person other than a pilot or health officer in the course of his duty shall- (a) board or leave a ship which has arrived in Hong Kong;
or
(b) be within thirty yards of any such ship, otherwise than
on a wharf or pier,
until the immigration examination signal is lowered.
(4) Except with the permission of the Director, no thing shall be removed from or taken or placed on board a ship which has arrived in Hong Kong until the immigration examination signal is lowered.
(5) The captain of an aircraft arriving in Hong Kong shall not land the aircraft except at an approved landing place.
(6) The Director of Immigration may exempt from sub- section (1) the captains of such ships, or of ships of such class or description as he thinks fit.