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Removal by immigration officer under section 16.

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PART VI.

SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AS TO REMOVAL AND DEPORTATION.

20. (1) Where a person is to be removed from Hong Kong under section 16 in a ship or aircraft, an immigration officer may give directions-

(a) to the captain of the ship or aircraft in which that person arrived in Hong Kong requiring him to remove that person from Hong Kong in that ship or aircraft;

(b) to the owners or agents of the ship or aircraft in which that person arrived in Hong Kong requiring them to remove that person from Hong Kong in any ship or aircraft specified or indicated 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 to make arrangements for the removal of that person from Hong Kong in any ship or aircraft specified or indicated in the directions to a specified country;

(d) to the owners or agents of any ship or aircraft requiring them to make arrangements for the removal of that person from Hong Kong in any ship or aircraft specified or indicated in the directions to a specified country, not- withstanding that such person did not arrive in Hong Kong in a ship or aircraft of which they are the owners or agents or in any ship or aircraft.

(2) A person in respect of whom directions are given under subsection (1) may be placed under the authority of an immigra- tion officer on board any ship or aircraft in which he is to be removed in accordance with the directions.

(3) Where the ship in which a person arrived in Hong Kong is a ship not exceeding five hundred gross tons-

(a) the captain of that ship may be required under sub- section (1)(a) to remove that person from Hong Kong forthwith in that ship; and

(b) an immigration officer may take such steps as he thinks necessary to procure the immediate departure of that ship from Hong Kong.

(4) A person may be removed from Hong Kong under sec- tion 16 by land to a specified country; and for that purpose may be taken in the custody of an immigration officer or police officer to the place at which he is to be removed.