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Recognizance as alternative to detention.
Recovery of cost of main-
taining person detained under s. 27(1).
IMMIGRATION BILL
(4) Any person required or authorized to be detained by or under this Ordinance may be arrested without warrant by an immigration officer or police officer; and any person who is-
(a) detained by virtue of this Ordinance;
(b) being removed from one place in which he is detained by virtue of this Ordinance to another place in which he may be so detained; or
(c) being taken to any place in the custody of an immigra- tion officer or police officer in accordance with this Ordinance,
shall be deemed to be in lawful custody.
31. (1) An immigration officer and any police officer may require a person-
(a) who is detained under section 23, 24, 27 or 29; or (b) who, being liable to be detained under any of those
sections, is not for the time being so detained,
to enter into a recognizance in the prescribed form in such amount and with such sureties as the Director or such police officer may specify; and where a person who is so detained enters into such a recognizance he may be released.
(2) A person may be detained under section 23, 24, 27 or 29 notwithstanding that he has entered into a recognizance pursuant to a requirement under subsection (1); and where such person is so detained otherwise than in consequence of or following a breach of the recognizance, the recognizance shall thereupon cease to have effect.
32. If a person who is detained under section 27(1) pending his removal from Hong Kong under section 16 arrived in Hong Kong in a ship or aircraft, the Director of Immigration may require the owner of the ship or aircraft or his agent to pay to the Government the expense incurred by it in maintaining that person during his detention.
PART VIII.
Prohibition of landing and remaining without permission,
and penalty for carrying illegal immigrant.
OFFENCES AND FORFEITURE.
33. (1) Subject to this Ordinance, an immigrant who-
(a)
lands in Hong Kong without the permission of an im- migration officer; or
(b) having landed in Hong Kong unlawfully, remains in Hong Kong without the authority of the Director,