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Mr Crowson
Mr Lairā
HONG KONG ADDITIONAL POWERS FOR IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS
We received on 12 July Executive Council
Memorandum on the proposed Immigration (Amendment)
Bill 1972. This Bill was published in Hong Kong on
14 July (see attached DIB) and "will be introduced
into the Legislative Council shortly."
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I sent the proposed legislation for advice to
Migration and Visa Department and to Legal Advisers.
Please see their minutes of 17th and 19th June attached.
You will see that they have two main points:
(i) That adverse decisions should be made subject to
a referral to the Director (the definition of this
term includes other officers besides the Director
personally). But it may be that this is what
(ii)
is meant by Hong Kong's term "to a senior level".
That some of the powers, listed under paragraph
7, (marked with an X) appear to be unsuitable
to be exercised by Hong Kong's Immigration
Assistants.
It may be that this legislation has already been
But if we do want to
put to the Legislative Council.
ask the Hong Kong Government to consider amending their
Bill, we would have to act quickly. I think we are
unlikely to persuade the Hong Kong Government to alter
the Bill substantially.
The point at para. 2 (i) above
could be taken care of by administrative arrangement.
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