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Registration of Persons Ordinance, of a valid travel
document, a police warrant card, a Vietnamese refugee card
or a certificate exempting the holder from registering
under that Ordinance by reason of old age, blindness or
infirmity.
6.
New section 17I(1) prohibits the employment of
persons who are not lawfully employable" as defined in new
section 17G(2). Since some employees will for legitimate
reasons be absent from work at the time new section 17I
comes into effect, and employers of such persons will not
have had the opportunity to determine whether they are
lawfully employable, a defence is given by new section
171(2).
7.
New section 17H(1) contains transitional
provisions whose object is to enable employers to establish
whether their existing employees are lawfully employable
This new and, if they are not, to dismiss them summarily. section provides in subsection (2)(b) and (4)(b) for an
extended period in which employers and employees may
establish whether existing exmployees who are absent from
work when new Part IVB becomes operative, are lawfully
employable.
Subsection (3) will permit employees who have
lost certain documents to establish that they are lawfully
employable, by producing a document from the Director of
Immigration acknowledging, in effect, that that is so.
New section 17J requires all employers to
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inspect the documents of prospective employees before
taking them on as employees. The sanction is the same as
that provided for in new section 171, namely, a fine of
50,000 and imprisonment for 1 year.
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