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PART IL
PASSPORTS AND TRAVEL Documents.
18. No person may enter the Colony without either-
(a) a valid travel document which establishes the identity and nationality of the holder and authorises him to travel to and to enter the Colony, issued and endorsed, in the case of a British subject and British protected person by a competent British official, and in other cases by an official having authority to issue and endorse such document in respect of the person in question; or () valid Entry Permit, Certificate of Residence ar Frontier Phas issued under this Ordinance:
Provided that the Immigration Officer may waive the requirements of this section in respect of a child nuder the age of 16 years or a person or class of person.
19. The possession of valid travel documents shall not be deemed to imply that the holler will be permitted to anter as of right, or, if he is permitted to enter, that he will be permitted to remain; nor shall it serve as an excuse for disobedience of any order of removal, deportation, expulsion or banishment made under any enactment for the time being in force.
20. No travel document shall be deemed to be valid unless it bears-
(a) an indication, either specific or in general terms, not otherwise invalidated by any other endorsement, that it is valid for Hong Kong; and
(b) an indication that it is still valid according to the laws of the country or state by which it was issued; and
(c) a photograph of the holder so affixed and authenticated that removal of such photograph and substitution by another is unlikely; and
(d) in the case of non-British subjects or non-British protected persons, a viss granted by a British Consular officer, or where there is no consular system, by a British official of similar authority and status, which was granted not more than one year before the arrival of the holder in the Colony and is still within the period of its validity, and which is either specifically or generally applicable to the journey on which the holder is engaged or which he has completed by his arrival in the Colony.
21. The holder of valid travel documents, which bear a transit visa only, shall not remain in the Colony longer than is reasonably necessary to enable him to tranship or to find other menos by which to proceed to his destination; and if the visa is for direct transit, be shall proceed by the most direct and speedy means: Provided that the Immigration Officer may, for any reason which he shall deem sufficient, grant an extension.
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22. The Immigration Officer shall, at all times, have diacretion Discretion o to limit the stay of any immigrant entering the Colony.
PART III.
ALIENS.
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23. Any alien arriving in or having entered the Colony, on Declaration being required to do so by general or specific instruction from may
required of the Immigration Officer, shall make a declaration as to whether alien. he is carrying or conveying any letters, written messages or memoranda, or any written or printed matter, including plans, photographs and other pictorial representations, and, if so required, shall produce such articles to the Immigration Officer.
24. Every alien who has attained the age of 16 years shall Registration comply with the following requirements as to registration--
(g) bo shall forthwith furnish to the Registrar of Aliens such particulars and photographe as may be prescribed by regulation;
(2) he shall within forty-eight hours of any occurrence affecting the accuracy of information already given furnish to the Registrar of Aliens details of the change;
(e) be shall, if he is about to change his residence, notify to the Registrar of Alieus the details of such change within forty-eight hours of the occurrence:
(d) be shall not leave the Colony, without notifying the Registrar of Aliens of his intended departure:
(e) if he is granted a stay of three months or more be shall obtain a registration book from the Registrar of Aliens and comply with any conditions applicable to him endorsed therein;
(f) an alien who bas no permanent residence must report each address in the Colony at which he stays to the Registrar of Aliens: Provided that if the name and address of a British subject is supplied as a guarantor, this condition may be relaxed by the Registrar of Aliens within his discretion.
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25. (1) Every alien shall on the demand of the Immigration Production of Ollicer or of any Deputy Immigration Officer or of any Immigration documents on Control Officer or of any police officer or of any member of His demand. Majesty's Forces acting in the execution of duty, either-
(a) produce his registration document; or
(6) produce a valid travel document; or (c) give a satisfactory explanation of the absence of either of such documents.
(2) If such alien fails to do so, he may be detained.
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