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to impose by Order in Council restrictions on the embarkation of persons subject to immigration control for purposes to be specified in the Order.

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18. The Home Secretary will have power to impose on individuals who are subject to immigration control, and have been already admitted to the country, special restrictions in regard to place of residence and reporting to the police if he thinks it necessary! in the public interest to do so.

Police registration

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19. At present only aliens are required to register with the police and the requirement extends to all except: (a) those admitted on the normal visit condition and (b) those admitted free of conditions for settlement This requirement will remain unchanged, but the normal visit condition will be extended from 3 to 6 months. The effect of the Bill and the immigration miles will be that Commonwealth citizens will have to register:- admitted with work permits or subsequently allowed to take approved employment; (b) if admivped as students or subsequently allowed to stay here to study; (c) i admitted as au pair girls or subsequently allowed to stay here in that capacity;" (a) in individual cases where admitted as a visitor but the migration officer thinks the requiroment desirable. After 4 years in approved employment the requirement to register will cease it, as is to be expected conditions are then cancelled.

Hotel registration

20.

Tho present obligations of hotels to keep registers, and of persons staying there to enter their names and other particularS in the register, derive from Article 19 of the Aliens Order 1953. The Bill will empower the Home Secretary to provide by regulations for a similar system of hotel registration.

Prosecution of offences

21.

In relation to offences which consist in on are connected with unlawful entry, or the making of false statements, or the falsification of documents, the Bill will override the general time limit on prosecution of summary offences contained in section 104 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 by providing that proceedings may be instituted within 2 months of the date on which the police obtain evidence justifying the prosecution or within 6 months of the commission of the offence, whichever period expires later, but subject to an overall time limit of

years.

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