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flexibility in the deployment of staff to cope with
the greatly increased demand for immigration facilities,
and increases in the number of immigration control
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points and volume of travellers passing through these
points. The immigration assistants will be concerned
with the more routine administration of the Immigration
Ordinance, such as the examination of persons arriving
in Hong Kong, the grant of permission to land, and other
related functions.
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This object is achieved principally by the
amendments to various sections of the Immigration
Ordinance effected by clause 10. The amendment in
clause 8(a) confers upon immigration assistants powers
of search, arrest and seizure but the new subsection
(1A) in clause 8(b) reserves the existing powers of
entry and search of premises to immigration officers.
The existing power to refuse permission to land is
also reserved to immigration officers (Schedule,
section 11(1), amendment (b)).
The Bill also transfers to the Secretary for
Security certain powers that are presently vested in the
Governor and the Chief Secretary since the Secretary for
Security is more directly concerned in the administration
of the relevant provisions of the Ordinance.
effected by
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