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Ord. No. 41/79

L.S.

LABOUR TRIBUNAL (AMENDMENT)

HONG KONG

No. 41 OF 1979

I assent.

IMMIGRATION (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2)

Ord. No. 42/79

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HONG KONG

No. 42 of 1979

I assent.

L.S.

Short title.

Amendment of section 9. (Cap. 25.)

Transitional.

JACK CATER, Acting Governor.

21st June, 1979.

An Ordinance to amend the Labour Tribunal Ordinance.

[22nd June, 1979]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and con- sent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Labour Tribunal (Amend- ment) Ordinance 1979.

2. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting the figure "6" in each place where it occurs in subsections (1) and (2) and substituting the following-

"12".

3. (1) If the cause of action in a claim or part of a claim arose more than 6 months before the commencement of this Ordinance, then notwithstanding section 2 the tribunal shall not have jurisdiction under section 9(1) of the principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance, to inquire into, hear or determine such claim or part of a claim unless the parties to the claim agree or have agreed, in either case, in the manner provided in section 9(1) of the principal Ordinance that the tribunal shall have jurisdiction.

(2) Where the tribunal by reason of subsection (1) has no jurisdic- tion over part of a claim, it may, with the consent of the parties, sever that part of the claim over which it has no jurisdiction and hear and determine the part over which it has jurisdiction.

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 20th day of June, 1979.

STEPHEN S. P. TAM,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

JACK CATER, Acting Governor.

21st June, 1979.

An Ordinance to amend the Immigration Ordinance.

[22nd June, 1979]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Immigration (Amendment) Short title. (No. 2) Ordinance 1979.

2.

Section 2(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended in the defini- Amendment of tion of "immigration assistant" by inserting after "rank of" the following section 2.

"senicr immigration assistant or".

(Cap. 115.)

3. Section 32 of the principal Ordinance is amended by adding Amendment of after subsection (3) the following subsections-

"(4) Notwithstanding subsections (1), (2) and (3), a person who is to be removed from Hong Kong under section 18 or in respect of whom a removal order or a deportation order is in force may be detained-

(a) under the authority of the Chief Secretary for not more

than 28 days; and

(b) by order of a court on the application of the Attorney General for further periods, not exceeding 21 days upon any one application,

for the purpose of giving evidence at the trial of any offence or of facilitating inquiries into any offence or suspected offence.

(5) In subsection (4), "court" includes the District Court and a magistrate.".

section 32.

4.

Section 47(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of "not exceeding 250 gross tons".

section 47.

section 48.

STEPHEN S. P. TAM, Clerk to the Legislative Council.

5. Section 48 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of subsection (6) and substituting the following-

(Cap. 221.)

"(6) On the hearing of an application under this section a certified true copy of the record of the proceedings, including the decision of the court, in any proceedings in respect of the offence under section 38(1) or (4) or section 39 of this Ordinance or section 90(1) of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance shall be admissible in evidence.".