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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1980

LAST DAY FOR 1'S TO REGISTER

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TOMORROW (SUNDAY) IS THE LAST DAY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM CHINA TO REGISTER FOR AN IDENTITY CARD.

THOSE WHO HAVE NOT REGISTERED BY MIDNIGHT TOMORROW WILL BE LIABLE TO REPATRIATION TO CHINA,

+TIME IS RAPIDLY RUNNING OUT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT YET COME FORWARD, A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN WARNED TODAY.

+THEY MUST REGISTER IMMEDIATELY. IT IS THEIR LAST CHANCE,+

THE SPOKESMAN WARNED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS NOT TO DELUDE THEMSELVES OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILING TO REGISTER THEMSELVES.

+AS THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL LAST THURSDAY '... FROM NOW ON LIFE FOR THEM IN HONG KONG WILL NOT JUST BE UNPLEASANT, IT WILL BE INTOLERABLE, SOONER OR LATER THEY WILL BE DETECTED AND THEY WILL BE REPATRIATED".+

THE SPOKESMAN REMINDED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO OBTAIN JOBS WITHOUT ID CARDS.

+IT WILL BE AGAINST THE LAW FOR EMPLOYERS TO ENGAGE THEM, HE SAID. MOREOVER THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO WORK WITHOUT ID CARDS WILL BE LIABLE TO BE DISMISSED WITHOUT NOTICE AND WITHOUT PAYMENT IN LIEU.

+AND, WITHOUT ID CARDS, THEY ARE LIABLE TO BE REPATRIATED.+

REGISTRATION SHOULD BE MADE WITHOUT DELAY AT THE SPECIAL REGISTRATION CENTRE AT VICTORIA BARRACKS, COTTON TREE DRIVE.

APPLICANTS MUST REGISTER PERSONALLY. THEY SHOULD BRING THREE RECENT PASSPORT-SIZE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEMSELVES WITH THEIR NAMES CLEARLY WRITTEN ON THE BACK.

UP TO 12 NOON TODAY (SATURDAY), 5 015 PEOPLE HAD REGISTERED SINCE THE SPECIAL CENTRE IN VICTORIA BARRACKS OPENED ON THURSDAY.

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