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Recovery of

cost of

maintaining

person detained under

s. 25(1).

30. If a person who is detained under subsection (1)

of section 25 pending his removal from Hong Kong under

section 15 arrived in Hong Kong in a ship or aircraft, the

owner of the ship or aircraft or his agent shall be liable

to pay to the Government the expense incurred by it in

maintaining that person during his detention.

Prohibition

of landing

PART VIII.

Offences and forfeiture.

31. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), an

and remaining immigrant who

without

permission, and penalty

for carrying illegal immigrant.

(a) lands in Hong Kong without the permission of an

immigration officer; or

(b) having landed in Hong Kong unlawfully, remains

in Hong Kong without the authority of the

Director,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction

to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for

three years.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person may land

in Hong Kong, without the permission of an immigration

officer, for the purpose of examination under section 3 in accordance with arrangements in that behalf approved by the

Director, and if he submits himself forthwith to such exam- ination shall be deemed for the purposes of subsection (1)

not to have landed unless and until permission to land is

granted to him.

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