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CONFIDENTIAL
HONG KONG IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE
6.
As to reference to the Hong Kong Immigration Ordinance,
it is considered bad practice to relate UK law directly to the
laws of a Dependent Territory, which may be changed without
reference to the UK Parliament. Furthermore, the Immigration
Ordinance will not stand beyond 30 June 1997, whereas this Order
is intended to remain in effect indefinitely. It would not be
appropriate to have to refer after 1997 to an Ordinance which
was no longer extant.
Scope for amendment
7.
Highly undesirable. If essential it may be possible to
replace Article 2 as currently drafted with the Annexed List of
persons affected. But the List would need conveying into precise legal language and the result would be long, complex and difficult
to understand.