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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

This is

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