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Extract from Immigration Ordinance, Cap. 115
Commencernent and discon- tinuance.
(Cap. 1.)
Interpretation.
(Cap. 177, sub. leg.)
(Cap. 177.)
PART IVB
PROHIBITION OF EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
17F. (1) The Governor in Council may from time to time, by order published in the Gazette, declare that this Part, or any provision of this Part specified in the order-
(a) shall come into operation;
(b) shall be discontinued in its operation.
(2) Where an order is made under subsection (1)(a), this Part or, as the case may be, any provision specified in the order, shall continue in operation until an order is made in relation to it under subsection (1)(b); and where an order is made under subsection (1)(b) in relation to this Part or any provision of it, the operation of this Part or, as the case may be, of that provision shall be discontinued until such time as a further order is made under subsection (1)(a) in relation to it.
(3) Section 23 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance shall have the same effect in relation to the dis- continuance of the operation of any provision by virtue of an order under subsection (1)(b) as it would have if such provision had been repealed.
17G. (1) In this Part-
"appointed day" means the day last declared under sec- tion 17F(1)(a) for section 171 to come into operation; "approved document" means a document approved by the
Governor under subsection (2)(c)(v);
"certificate of exemption” means a certificate issued by the Commissioner of Registration to a person who by virtue of regulation 25(e) of the Registration of Persons Regulations (relating to the aged, the blind and the infirm) is not required to be registered under the Regis- tration of Persons Ordinance;
"contract of employment" means any agreement, whether in writing or oral, express or implied, whereby one person agrees to employ another and that other agrees to serve his employer as an employee and includes a contract of apprenticeship;
"employee" means any person who has entered into a contract of employment to be employed by any other person as an employee or apprentice;