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G.F. 323

CONFIDENTIAL

Removal by immigration officer under section 17.

PART VI.

Supplementary provisions as to removal and deportation.

20. (1) Where a person is to be removed from Hong Kong

under section 17 in a ship or aircraft, an immigration officer

may give directions

(a)

to the master of the ship or commander of the aircraft

in which that person arrived in Hong Kong requiring

him to remove that person from Hong Kong in that ship

or aircraft at the expense of the owners thereof;

(b)

to the owners or agents of the ship or aircraft in

which that person arrived in Hong Kong requiring them,

at the expense of such owners, to remove that person

from Hong Kong in any ship or aircraft notified in

the directions, being a ship or aircraft of which

they are the owners or agents;

(c) to the said owners or agents requiring them, at the

expense of such owners, to make arrangements for the

removal of that person from Hong Kong in any ship or

aircraft bound for a specified country and to secure

him a passage to that country;

(a)

to the owners or agents of any ship or aircraft bound

for a specified country requiring them, at the expense

of the Government, to make arrangements for the remo-

val of that person from Hong Kong and to secure him a

passage to that country, notwithstanding that such

person did not arrive in Hong Kong in a ship or air-

craft of which they are the owners or agents or in

any ship or aircraft.

CONFIDENTIAL