TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1991
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NEW ANTI-II LEGISLATIVE MEASURES EFFECTIVE
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THE NEW
LEGISLATIVE MEASURES
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AGAINST
DESIRED EFFECT, THE DEPUTY INTRODUCED LAST NOVEMBER ARE HAVING THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR IAN STRACHAN, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).
BY
KONG
CONSTRUCTION
ORDINANCE
SPEAKING AT A SEMINAR ON THE IMMIGRATION (AMENDMENT}
MR ASSOCIATION, 1990 ORGANISED
THE HONG
FLOW OF STRACHAN SAID THE MEASURES HAD RESULTED IN A DECREASE IN THE
WHEN THE NUMBER OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, REVERSING THE TREND IN 1990 ARRESTS SHOT UP BY 76 PER CENT TO 28,000.
HE
ARRESTED IN DECEMBER LAST "THE NUMBER OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS YEAR CAME TO 1,735, COMPARED WITH 2,734 IN MAY AND 3,430 IN JULY," SAID.
9. 158 SINCE THE ENACTMENT OF THE NEW LEGISLATION ON NOVEMBER
HAVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ON CONSTRUCTION SITES, 166
REFERRED BEEN ARRESTED AT OTHER PLACES OF WORK, EIGHT CASES HAVE BEEN
PRINCIPAL CONTRACTOR, TWO CASES FOR PROSECUTION ACTION AGAINST THE
LEGAL ADVICE
TAKING REGARDING
PROSECUTION HAVE BEEN REFERRED FOR
45 PROSECUTION CASES HAVE AGAINST CONSTRUCTION SUB-CONTRACTORS AND BEEN TAKEN AGAINST OTHER EMPLOYERS.
"THE NEW
LEGISLATION PROVIDES
AN
EMPLOYER
WITH A DEFENCE ALL PRACTICABLE
AGAINST PROSECUTION IF HE CAN SHOW THAT HE HAD TAKEN
PERSON WAS LAWFULLY EMPLOYABLE AND STEPS TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE
THAT
WAS LAWFULLY THAT IT WAS REASONABLE EMPLOYABLE," MR STRACHAN SAID.
то
CONCLUDE
ΤΟ
PERSON THE
REMIND
AND EMPLOYERS,
THEY MEASURES
SHOULD
THOSE IN
TAKE
то
HE TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY CHARGE OF CONSTRUCTION SITES, OF THE ENSURE THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WERE NOT EMPLOYED ON THEIR PREMISES.
GUIDELINES,
WHAT
LAW WOULD BE
THAT WHILE HE ADDED
ON HE COULD ADVISE AMOUNTED TO "ALL PRACTICABLE STEPS" IN THE EYES OF THE FOR THE COURTS TO DECIDE IN EACH CASE.
WAS EMPLOY ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
PROSPECTIVE
MR STRACHAN REITERATED THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO EMPLOYERS THAT IT DID NOT PAY TO IMMIGRANTS, AND ALSO TO SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO IMMIGRANTS THAT THERE WAS NO POINT COMING TO HONG KONG WAS NO WORK AVAILABLE FOR THEM HERE.
BECAUSE THERE
ENTRY
BY
HONG OF PROTECTION FROM
THE AND
KONG
OF BUT EXPLOITATION
THE
BY
SMALL
NUMBER OF
"THIS IS IN THE INTEREST NOT ONLY IMMIGRANTS THEMSELVES, WHO DESERVE THOSE WHO ORGANISE ILLEGAL UNSCRUPULOUS EMPLOYERS," HE ADDED.
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