Permission to land and conditions of stay.
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(6) An immigration officer may require a person being examined under section 3(1) to furnish to him such information as he may require for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(7) An immigration officer may give such directions as he considers necessary for preventing any person from evading examination under section 3(1).
(8) The Director of Immigration may exempt from sub- section (4)(b) any person or any class or description of persons.
5. (1) On the examination under section 3(1)(a) of an immigrant, other than a serviceman, an immigration officer may give the immigrant permission to land in Hong Kong or refuse him such permission.
(2) Where permission is given to an immigrant to land in Hong Kong, an immigration officer may impose-
(a) a limit of stay; and
(b) such other conditions of stay as an immigration officer
thinks fit.
(3) Subject to subsection (9), the permission given to an immigrant to land in Hong Kong shall be deemed to be subject to the prescribed conditions of stay in addition to any conditions of stay imposed under subsection (2).
(4) In the case of an immigrant who is a member of a party in the charge of a responsible person, notice of any condition of stay shall be deemed to be given to such immigrant if it is given in writing to the person in charge of the party.
(5) The Director may at any time by notice in writing to an immigrant-
(a) cancel any condition of stay or vary any condition of stay (other than a limit of stay) in force in respect of the immigrant;
(b) impose any condition of stay (other than a limit of
stay) in respect of the immigrant;
(c) vary any limit of stay in force in respect of the immigrant by enlarging the period during which the immigrant may remain in Hong Kong.
(6) The Governor may at any time vary any limit of stay in force in respect of an immigrant by curtailing the period during which the immigrant may remain in Hong Kong, and the Director shall in writing notify the immigrant of any such variation.
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(7) The Governor may by order applying to all immigrants or to any class or description of immigrants----
(a) cancel or vary any condition of stay in force in respect
of such immigrants;
(b) impose any condition of stay (other than a limit of
stay) in respect of such immigrants.
(8) Whenever a condition of stay is in force in respect of an immigrant, the Director may-
(a) require the immigrant; or
(b) if the immigrant is a member of the crew of a ship or aircraft, require the captain of the ship or aircraft or the owners or agents of the ship or aircraft,
to enter into a recognizance in the prescribed form in such amount and with such sureties as the Director may specify.
(9) The Director of Immigration may exempt any person or any class or description of persons from compliance with all or any of the prescribed conditions of stay.
6. (1) Where an immigrant arrives in Hong Kong as a member of the crew of an aircraft under an engagement requiring him to leave within seven days on that or another aircraft as a member of its crew, then unless-
(a) a deportation order is in force in respect of him; (b) he has at any time been refused permission to land in Hong Kong and has not since then been given permission to land in Hong Kong; or
(c) he is examined under section 3(1)(a) otherwise than for the purpose of establishing that he is such a member of the crew of an aircraft,
he may land in Hong Kong without the permission of an immigra- tion officer and remain until the departure of the aircraft on which he is required by his engagement to leave.
(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, any such immigrant who, having lawfully landed in Hong Kong without the permission of an immigration officer by virtue of subsection (1)—
(a) seeks permission to remain in Hong Kong beyond the
time allowed by subsection (1); or
(b) remains in Hong Kong without the permission of an immigration officer beyond the time so allowed or is reasonably suspected by an immigration officer of in- tending to do so,
Special provisions as
to members of crew of aircraft.