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officer or police officer in accordance with this
Ordinance,
shall be deemed to be in lawful custody.
Recugni zance as alter- netive to detention.
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 recogni zance, the recognizance shall thereupon cease to
have effect.
Recovery of cost of maintaining person detained under s. 27(1).
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.
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