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misgivings.
May I therefore assure the Council that
this presumption clause will not be used against an
employer upon whose premises an illegal inmigrant is
found, if it is clear that the employer could have had
no knowledge of that person's status.
9.
I turn now to the removal of the illegal
inmigrants who are detected. A new Section 19 has been
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provided which leaves with the Governor the responsibility
for ordering the removal of a person regarded as an
undesirable illegal immigrant (which is a weightier and
more subjective decision); but transfers, from the Governor
to the Director of Immigration or his Deputy, the authority
to order removal of the ordinary illegal immigrant. It
has been recognised for some time that it is undesirable
and unnecessary to require the Governor personally to
make the relatively large number of Removal Orders which
are made, and which will need to be made in future, under
the Immigration Ordinance.
10.
However, as a safeguard, a new appeals system
is proposed. This introduces into immigration legislation,
for the first time, the principle of an independent appeal
and tribunal. It is based in part on the UK system,
under which an independent layman of standing considers
appeals against Removal Orders. We are proposing that
there shall be a panel of lay assessors (or a Tribunal
as it will be termed) who will consider appeals against
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