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The
Immigration
(Amendment) (No.2) Bill now
before this
Council
seeks to define the right of
abode in Hong Kong as the right to land and remain in
Hong Kong and the right not
the right not to be deported
to be deported or removed
from Hong Kong. This definition
includes all the
components of right of abode as this term is
understood, including freedom
generally
deportation.
from
The Bill also seeks to create the new
category of persons "Hong Kong permanent
residents"
comprising all who are at present defined in the
Immigration Ordinance
"Chinese residents".
as "Hong Kong belongers" ΟΙ
Broadly speaking, the former
who have resided in
cover 3.25 million Hong Kong British Dependent
Territories citizens and the latter another 1.74
million persons of Chinese race
Hong Kong for 7 years or more. The right of abode as
defined will be accorded to this new category of
Consequently, the right not to be deported
persons.
from Hong Kong currently enjoyed by
"Hong Kong
belongers" will be extended to "Chinese residents".
The Bill amends the
the deportation provisions in the
principal Ordinance to provide for the immunity from
deportation of persons who are at present defined as
"Chinese residents".