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IMMIGRATION (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3)

HONG KONG

No. 61 OF 1979

L.S.

I assent.

Ord. No. 61/79

A181

MURRAY MACLEHOSE,

Governor.

2nd August, 1979.

An Ordinance to amend the Immigration Ordinance.

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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 and (No. 3) Ordinance 1979 and shall come into operation on a day to be commencement. appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette, and notices under this section may appoint different dates for different provisions of this Ordinance.

section 2.

2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting Amendment of after the definition of "serviceman" the following-

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"ship" includes a barge and every other description of vessel;”.

(Cap. 115.)

3. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after Part VII Addition of the following Part-

"PART VIIA

UNAUTHORIZED ENTRANTS

Part VIIA.

Interpretation.

Declaration of unauthorized

entrants.

37A. In this Part-

"passage" in relation to an unauthorized entrant includes the travel and transport of the unauthorized entrant by ship, aircraft, vehicle or any other means whatsoever; and

"unauthorized entrant" means a person belonging to a class or description of persons who, by an order made under section 37B, are declared to be unauthorized entrants, other than a person who under subsection (2) of that section is excepted from the declaration in such order.

37B. (1) The Governor in Council may by order declare any class or description of persons, other than persons who have the right to land in Hong Kong by virtue of section 8(1), to be unauthorized entrants.

(2) A declaration under subsection (1) may be made subject to such exceptions as are specified in the order.