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(a) he is the holder of an identity card;
(8) he is the holder of an official pasaport; or
(e) he is not required to be registered under the Regis-
tration of Persons Ordinance and is the holder of-
() a valid travel document;
(0) a police warrant card;
(iii) a Vietnamese refugee card:
(iv) a certificate of exemption; or
(V) any other document of a type approved by the Governor by order published in the Gazerte.
17H. (1) An employee may be required by his em- player to produce for inspection within the time limited by subsection (3)-
(a) the employee's identity card;
(6) the employee's official passport; or
(c) where the employee is not the holder of an identity card and is not required to be registered under the Registration of Persons Ordinance
(0) a valid travel document;
(ii) a police warrant card:
(i) a Vietnamese refugee card or a document issued by the Director acknowledging that the em- ployes is the holder of a Vietnamese refugee card which is reported lost or destroyed;
(iv) a certificate of exemption: or (v) any other approved document, held by the employee.
(2) A requirement may be made under subsection (1)— () at any time prior to the appointed day in the case
of an employee who-
(i) is in Hong Kong, and
(ii) is not absent from work; or
(5) upon the first return to work of an employee who between the day on which an order under sec- tion 17F(1)) was last made and the appointed day..
() was outside Hong Kong: or
(ii) was absent from work.
(3) Where an employee faik-
(a) by the appointed day to comply with a requirement
made in accordance with subsection (2)(a); or
(5) within 72 hours of his return to work, to comply with a requirement made in accordance with sub- pection (2X5},
his employer shall be entitled to terminate the employment of such employee without notice or payment in lieu and no
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liability, either at common law or under any Ordinance, shail attach to the employer by reason of such termination or for any loss thereby suffered by the employee:
Provided that if at any time after the time limited by this subsection the employee produces to his employer for inspection any document which should have been produced within the time so limited, the employee's employment shall, if it has not already been terminated, cease upon such production to be liable to be terminaled under this sub- section.
171. (1) Any person who is the employer of an em- ployee who is not lawfully employable commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 1 year.
(2) It shall be a defence in proceedings for an offence under this section for the person charged to prove that the employee in respect of whom the offence is alleged to have been committed had been absent from work continuously from the date when section 178 last came into operation until 72 hours before the date of the alleged offence.
(3) It shall not be a defence in proceedings for an offence under this section that the employce entered the employment of the employer before the appointed day.
11. (0) No person shall in Hong Kong enter into a contract of employment to employ any other person unless he first inspects—
(a) the identity card held by such other person; (1 the official passport held by such other person; or (c) where such other person is not the holder of an identity card and is not required to be registered under the Registration of Persons Ordinance-
( a valid travel document;
(10) a police warrant card;
(ii) a Vietnamese refugee card;
(iv) a certificate of exemplion, or
(v) any other approved document,
held by him.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commita an offence and is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprison- ment for 1 year.
17K. (0) Every employer shall keep at the place of employment of each of his employces a record of
(a) the full name of the employce as shown in his identity card or other document by virtue of which he is lawfully employable; and
(b) the type of document held by the employee by virtue of which he is lawfully employable, and the number of that document.
(2) Every employer shall, where he employs more than 10 employees at any one place of employment, keep at that