by the Legislative Council.. In addition, no services or assistance from Government Departments would be available to those unable to produce proof of identity, except in cases of emergency, such as medical treat- ment or urgent public assistance. It would be in the interests of those not required to register for identity cards to carry some other form of identification.
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The announcement would also advise anyone who had lost his identity card and not reported the loss to do so at once: certain Regis - tration of Persons Offices would remain open over the weekend for this
purpose.
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A Special Registration Office of the Immigration Department at Victoria Barracks would be open from 6. 00 a. m. on Saturday. Persons applying there would be given a document recording their personal details, carrying their photograph and showing a date within the next two months on which they should attend for the issue of an identity card. The office would be manned continuously night and day until midnight on Monday, In this time, up to 100,000 registrations could take place (an order for this number of registration forms is now ready to go to the Government Printer). However an estimate of the number likely to register is about 15,000. Certain other Registration Offices would also be manned over the weekend (see paragraph 13).
Enforcement
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Between the announcement on Friday and the coming into operation of the legislation for the obligatory carrying of proof of identity, Police and Immigration would keep action against suspected evaders to a minimum. On the set date (which would probably be the following Thursday) enforcement would begin. All persons coming into contact with the Police would be required to produce identity documents on a selective basis with "action squads", of about 200 officers per day, specifically tasked to seek out evaders in public places. Persons found to be without such documents and unable to identify themselves would be arrested and taken to a Police station. If following enquiries, they subsequently produced a satisfactory document, they would be released, although proceedings for non-carriage would be considered, where appropriate. If they failed to produce identity documents, or give a satisfactory explanation, they would be referred to an Immigration Officer for investigation and, if appropriate, be detained in the Victoria Immigration Detention Centre. If investigation by an Immigration Officer established that they were illegal immigrants, a Removal Order would be served on them, made by the Director of Iminigration or his Deputy. They would be entitled to appeal against the legality of the Order to de adjudicator, whose decision would be final. Appeals (which would in fact be petitions) on humanitarian or other discretionary grounds would be
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