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Your telegram No 583.
IMMIGRATION BILL
1.
Ministers have now considered the terms of the
Bill and have agreed to its enactment subject to the
following comments and amendments.
2.
Clause 5(1) empowers an immigration officer to
refuse leave to land. This is legally the position
in the United Kingdom, but in practice the Home
Secretary has ruled that the power to refuse admission
should not be exercised by an immigration officer
acting on his own discretion and the authority of a
senior officer must always be obtained.
Ministers
accordingly consider that similar administrative
direction should be made in Hong Kong.
Copies to:-
HKD
FED
M & VD
N & TD
Sir L Monson Mr Wilford
3.
Clauses 17 (1)(c) and 18.
The powers conferred
on the Governor by Clause 17 (1)(c) go beyond any
powers conferred on the Home Secretary to order the
removal from the United Kingdom of a Commonwealth
/immigrant
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