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Document or circunutancES.
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Entry permit
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Re-entry permit
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Extension of stay
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Certificate of good character
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
3rd August, 1961,
Explanatory Note.
Blan
Clerk of Counchts-
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
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These regulations revoke the Immigration (Control and Offences) Regula. tions, 1958 (hereinafter referred to as the existing regulations) and re-eœad them subject to amendment in certain respects and with the addition of new provisicus which have become necessary in consequence of the establishmeal of be Immigration Service. The more important of the amendments and the new provisions are as follows---
(0) Under regulation 3 of the existing regulations, persons detained und
the provisions of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section (3 of the Immigration (Control and Offences) Ordinance, 1958 (hereinafter referred 10 as the Ordinance) may be detained in certain prisons or in a police station. Persons detained under those provisions by the Director of Immigration will normally be detained in one of those places, but it is considered desirable that the Director should have power to detain such persoas in any of the offices of the Immigration Service for a period not exceeding two hours. Paragraph (3) of regulation 3 provides accordingly.
(6) Regulation $ provides for the excrcise by the bolders of specified public
offices, some being members of the Immigration Service and wom being police officers, of such of the powers vested in the Director of Immigration by the Ordinance as are prescribed in relation to cách such office.
(e) By virtue of the provisions of section 7A of the Ordinance, all person arriving in or departing from the Colony are required to furnish jbe Director of Immigration, in the prescribed form, with particulars of themselves, and, by virtue of the provisions of section 24 of the Ordinance, certain aliens in the Colony who have attained the age of sixteen years are required to furnish the Director, in the prescribed form, with such particulars. The respective forms are prescribed by paragraph (1) of regulation 6.
By virtue of the provisions of paragraph (5) of regulation 6 of the existing regulations, an alien who is staying in the Colony for more than forty-eight hours is required to deliver to the Registrar of Aliens two photographs of himself. In the future, go photograph only will have to be delivered to the Director of Immigration. The necessary provisions are contained in paragraph (2) of regulation 6.
The proviso to paragraph (5) of regulation 6 of the existing regulations is omitted. The provisions made thereunder are no longer necessary since section 24 of the Ordinance now provides that the photograph is to be delivered only by an alien who is staying in the Colony for more than fourteen days.
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(d) Subsection (6) of section 41 of the Ordinance provides that an applica- tion to a magistrate for forfeiture shall be made in the prescribed form, and also provides that the summons issued by the magistrate, upon receipt of such an application, to the person claiming that a vehicle or vessel is not liable to forfeiture shall also be in the prescribed form. Regulation 8 prescribes the necessary forms.
(e) By virtue of the provisions of paragraph (1) of regulation 10 of the existing regulations, the prescribed fee is payable on the issue of every entry permit other than an entry permit issued to a person in transit through the Colony. It is proposed that the fee should also not be payable where an entry permit is issued by the stamping of a travel document. Paragraph (1) of regulation 10 provides accordingly.
tf The form of entry permits, re-entry permits, certificates of identity issued under regulation 9 or 11 of the existing regulations, emergency certificates and frontier passes was prescribed in those regulations, It is considered that it will be more convenient if the Director of Immigra- tion has power to prescribe the form of these documents. Regulation 14 provides the Director with the necessary power.
(g) Regulation 16 provides for fees. The fee for an emergency certificate is increased from 16 to 18, the fee for au contry permit is increased from $5 to $20, the fee payable on the grant of an extension of stay is increased from $3 to $25 and a number of new fees are provided for. Hitherto, no fee has been provided for the renewal of a certificate of identity issued under regulation and the other new fees, namely, those in relation to passports and seamen's certificates of cationality and identity, bave been published by other means, It is now considered convenicot to prescribe them in these regulations.
(Secretariat CR52/3231/481V)
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