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SPEECH BY THE HONOURABLE CHIEF SECRETARY TO LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL ON 23 OCTOBER 1980

Moving the Second Reading of the Immigration (Amendment) (No 2) Bill 1980 to Amend the Immigration Ordinance

Sir, I move the second reading of the Immigration (Amendment)

(No 2) Bill 1980.

a ban on the

In your statement just now, Sir, you explained the reasons which make it essential for there to be a change in the "reached base" policy and to provide 'for the obligatory carrying of proof-of-identity; employment of those without such proof; and revised procedures for the removal of those here illegally. The Bill before the Council amends the Immigration

Ordinance so as to legislate for these measures.

2.

In conjunction with the decision to enforce the Immigration Ordinance in respect of illegal immigrants

from China, in the same way as it is enforced in respect of those from all other countries, this Bill provides

the machinery to bring to an end the "unacceptable situation" which has developed in Hong Kong these past two years.

3.

The first major amendment to the Immigration Ordinance, which is proposed, is a new Part IVA which will require every person aged 15 and over, who holds an identity card or is required to be registered under the Registration of Persons Ordinance, to have with him or her, at all times,

These one of several specified forms of proof-of-identity.

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