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person seeking to-land in Hong Kong; and an immigration officer may examine him under section 3(1)(a) within twenty-eight days

after

(a) he ceased to be a serviceman; or

(b) if at the time he ceased to be a serviceman he was

detained in pursuance of the sentence or order of any

court, his discharge from detention.

(2) Any such person who does not submit himself to examination under section 3(1)(a) within the period during which in accordance with subsection (1) he may be examined by an immigration officer under that section shall on the expiry of that period be deemed for the purposes of this Ordinance to have landed in Hong Kong without the permission of an immigration

officer.

Authority for illegal immigrant

to remain.

New

9. The Director may at any time authorize an immigrant who landed in Hong Kong unlawfully to remain in Hong Kong, subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, whether or not such person has

been convicted of that offence.

Immigration signals etc.

PART III.

Immigration procedure.

10. (1) Subject to subsection (6), the captain of a ship

shall, on the arrival of the ship in Hong Kong, hoist the

prescribed immigration examination signal and shall keep the

same hoisted until an immigration officer permits him to lower it.

(2) An immigration officer may, on the arrival of a ship

in Hong Kong, require the captain -

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