Closure of northern frontier to entry
except at authorized
places.
Conditions
of entry.
Require
ments for the validity of passports and travel documents.
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8. No person shall enter the Colony across its northern frontier, between Sha-tau-kok and the estuary of the Sham Chun River inclusive, except at such entry points as the Governor may appoint by notification in the Gazette.
9. The Immigration Officer may in his discretion refuse permission to land, or to remain after landing in the Colony or to enter or to remain after entering, beyond such period as he may sanction, to any person who-
(a) is a through passenger; or
(b) is not in possession of either- (i) a valid passport; or
(ii) some other valid travel document, establishing his nationality and identity and authorizing him to travel to and enter the Colony, issued or endorsed, in the case of a British subject or British protected person, by a competent British official and in other cases by an official having authority to issue or endorse such document in respect of the person in question; or
(iii) a valid Entry Permit or Certificate of Residence or Frontier Pass issued under this Ordinance :
Provided also that the Immigration Officer shall not exercise the powers conferred by this section if the person is a child who appears to him to be of or under the age of fifteen years and to be accompanied by and to be a member of the family of a person whose landing or permission to remain has been sanctioned under this section:
Provided further that neither the possession of a valid passport or travel document nor any visa or endorsement thereon nor any Entry Permit or Certificate of Residence shall be deemed to imply that the holder will be permitted to land in the Colony, or, if allowed to land, that he will be permitted to stay in the Colony; nor shall it serve as any excuse for disobeying any deportation, banishment or expulsion order or any order or regulation made under the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Orders in Council, 1939 and 1940, or under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, or any Quarantine Regulation for the time being in force.
10. No passport or travel document shall be deemed to be valid unless---
(a) an indication, either specific or in general terms, which is not invalidated by any other endorsement, appears thereon to the effect that the passport or travel document is
alid for Hong Kong;
(b) it was issued or renewed to the holder, in the case of a passport, by or on behalf of the Government of the country or state of which he is a subject or citizen, and in the case of a travel document, by a competent official, not more than five years before the arrival of the holder in the Colony, and that it is still within the period of its validity if any such period be stated.
(c) it has a photograph of the person or persons to whom it relates so affixed as to obviate the possibility of its removal and the substitution of another photograph: Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in the case. of any Pardanashin or Gosha woman; and