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4.
Removal of persons who are not permitted to land.
New
An imigrant who arrives in a ship or aircraft and
is not permitted to land in Hong Kong must, if the Director of
Immigration so requires, be removed in that ship or aircraf
at the expense of its owners. If, as may often be the case,
an immigrant who is refused permission to land cannot be
removed in that ship or aircraft when it loaves Hong Kong,
the Government is obliged to remove him ab its expense.
Clause 18 will, therefore, enable an immigration officer to
require the owners or agents of the ship or aircraft in which
the immigrant arrived to renove him at the owners' expense in
another ship or aircraft of which they are owners or agents OF
to arrange for his ronoval in any ship or aircraft bound for
a "specified country", An imigretion officer will also be
able to require any oraezs of a ship or aircraft to remove an
inni grant who is not permitted to land, but in such a case tho
Government will be obliged to noot the cost of his removal :
Hong Kong. This follows similar provisions in the United
Kingdom.
5.
Renoval of undesirable inmigrants and others.
At present, a person who is lawfully in Hong Kong
cannot be renoved except by deportation proceedings or by an
expulsion order following a conviction for a breach of landing
condition. It is considered that there should be a sumary
method of renoval from Hong Kong of short term immigrants who
have shown that their presence is not of bezefit to Hong Kong,
Accordingly, clause 16(1) and (2)(b) confers on the Governor
power to order the rerioval of an undesirable immigrant who
has been in Hong Kong for less than five years since his
last entry.
By clause 16(1) and (2)(a), the Governor's power
to order the removal from Hong Kong of illegal immigrants
and those who are in breach of landing conditions is retained,
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