CO129-583-21 Immigration and Passports Amendment Ordinance 1940 14-2-1940 - 4-7-1940 — Page 8

L. S.

HONG KONG.

No. 20 of 1940.

I assent.

N. L. SMITH,

Officer Administering the Government.

28th June, 1940.

An Ordinance to amend the Immigration and Passports

Ordinance, 1934.

[28th June, 1940.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Immigration and Short title. Passports Amendment Ordinance, 1940.

2. Sub-section (3) of Section 11 of the Immigration and Amendment Passports Ordinance, 1934, is amended by the addition, of Ordinance after the words "shall be paid" at the end thereof, of the 1934, words-

"unless reciprocal arrangements exist with the country of which the holder is a national for dispensing with fees for permits of the same or similar effect".

Passed the Legislative Council of Ilong Kong, this 27th day of June, 1940.

No. 8 of

s. 11 (3).

C. BRAMALL BURGESS,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS.

Hong Kong,..

27th June,

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REPORT ON ORDINANCE No.......................20.................of 1940,

1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an

Ordinance to amend the Immigration and Passports

Ordinance, 1934.

2.

A print of the memorandum of Objects and

Reasons of the Bill for this Ordinance is attached.

3.

I am of opinion that this Ordinance is not

contrary to the Governor's instructions and that it is

one to which His Excellency the Officer Administering

the Government may properly assent in the name of His

Majesty and on His behalf.

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Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 11 (3) of the principal Ordinance provides that the holder of a valid passport or travel document which bears an endorsement defining a limited period of stay in the Colony shall not remain in the Colony after the period has expired: Provided that the period of his stay may be extended with the consent of the Commissioner of Police for which consent the official signature fee of $5.00 shall be paid.

2. It may be argued that this ordinary Official Signature Fee is in effect the statutory fee for a temporary residential permit.

3. This Bill will add words at the end of the section which will waive the fee where reciprocal arrangements exist with the country of which the holder of the passport or travel document is a national for dispensing with fees for permits of the same or similar effect.

June, 1940.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

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