XN000022-1990-11-07 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1990

"PRACTICAL

ADVICE

TO

IN

CHARGE PREVENTION

OF

THOSE EMPLOYERS AND TO CONSTRUCTION SITES WILL BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM CRIME OFFICERS IN EACH POLICE DISTRICT.

ΤΟ

"IN ADDITION, THE ADMINISTRATION WILL, ON REQUEST, BE GLAD

THE CONSTRUCTION GIVE ASSISTANCE AND GUIDANCE TO REPRESENTATIVES OF INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYERS GENERALLY.

DEFENCE

"BUT WHETHER THE MEASURES TAKEN CONSTITUTE AN ADEQUATE

HE SAID. WILL BE FOR THE COURT TO DETERMINE IN EACH CASE,

THE BILL WAS PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS AT THE COMMITTEE STAGE.

PROSECUTIONS POLICY DESIGNED TO DETER IIS, AG SAYS

POLICY WHICH WOULD SEEK то

SERIOUSLY UNDERMINE { AMENDMENT} BILL

A PROSECUTIONS

WOULD IMMIGRANTS

IMMIGRATION OBJECTIVE OF THE

ILLEGAL

REPATRIATE ALL

LEGISLATIVE ATTORNEY

THE

THE 1990,

GENERAL, MR JEREMY MATHEWS, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY.

A VIRTUAL INVITATION TO "SUCH A POLICY WOULD BE, IN MY VIEW,

FLOODING INTO HONG KONG, THE VERY ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO COME SITUATION THAT WE ARE SEEKING TO AVOID," SAID MR MATHEWS.

HE POINTED OUT THAT THE PROSECUTIONS

POLICY WAS DESIGNED ΤΟ

DETER THOSE CAME HERE FOR EMPLOYMENT.

MR MATHEWS SAID HE WAS PREPARED TO REVIEW THAT POLICY CAREFULLY AFTER SIX MONTHS.

||

PROVISIONS IN THE

HE SAID.

THE THAT "BUT I BELIEVE THAT IT IS RIGHT BILL AND THE POLICY DESERVE A FAIR CHANCE TO WORK,'

HESITATE ΤΟ "AS I SAID WHEN I SPOKE ON 17 OCTOBER I WOULD NOT

THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES NOT WORK. IN

IT CHANGE THE POLICY IF IT DOES

UNWISE ΤΟ GIVE THE UNDERTAKING WOULD, I SUGGEST, BE PREMATURE AND

THIS AFTERNOON THAT WE SHOULD ABANDON THAT THAT HAS BEEN SOUGHT PROSECUTIONS POLICY, SAID MR MATHEWS.

I

POLICY HE SAID HAD THERE NOT BEEN A

IT IMMIGRANTS

WAS CLEAR THAT THE NUMBERS EMPLOYMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY MUCH GREATER.

THE

OF PROSECUTING

COMING

ILLEGAL HERE SEEKING

MATHEWS WAS REPLYING TO SUGGESTIONS DURING

OF THE

BILL

THAT

THE

THE DEBATE ON

POLICY, PROSECUTIONS

INTO THE IMMIGRANTS

MR

READING SECOND ANNOUNCED ON OCTOBER 17 DURING THE INTRODUCTION OF THE BILL COUNCIL, SHOULD BE MODIFIED AND

FUTURE ILLEGAL REPATRIATED

FOUND ON CONSTRUCTION

SITES

WITHOUT PROSECUTION, HAVING BEEN WARNED.

BUT

SHOULD SHOULD BE

IN THAT

BE

PROSECUTED IF

ΤΟ BACK

CAME THEY

CHINA BACK

/ON THE

+