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RECEIVEO MASSANTAY NO. 51
09 JUN 1980
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION INIC HONG KONG FROM CHINA
Problem
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To reply to the letter from the Secretary for Security, Hong
Kong, dated 30 May, about Hong Kong's contingency plans on illegal
immigration from China. The Governor has asked (Hong Kong telegram
No 702) that we reply before EXCO meets on 10 June.
Recommendation,
2. I recommend that we agree the draft legislative proposals
and submit a draft telegram. Legal Advisers concur.
Background and Argument
3.
I summarised the Governor's proposals in paragraph 3 of
my submission of 14 May. These were endorsed by the Secretary
of State on Mr Blaker's recommendation (Mr Munro's minute of
22 May). The Governor was so informed in our telegram No 415, with
the proviso that we would want to examine the draft legislation.
4. The Legal Advisers and I are satisfied that there is no
reason to object to the proposals. They are on the same lines
as the summary in the earlier Executive Council Paper attached
to my submission of 14 May. The legislation is carefully drafted.
Although, as Mr Davies says in his letter, it is robust, it is
also scrupulously fair. The appeals procedure, now fleshed out
since the earlier paper, is of interest.
is similar to the system used in the UK.
As Mr Davies notes, it
The Home Office have
told us that a team from the Hong Kong Immigration Department
visited them a few weeks ago to study their methods.
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