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include an identity card, an official document confirming that the person has applied for a new such card (or for a replacement); a valid travel document; a driving licence; or a Vietnamese refugee card (the last requirement has been inserted in order to avoid preferential treatment of Vietnamese refugees, since they are not issued with normal identity cards). Those stopped by the Police must produce
their proof of identity, and failure to do so without reasonable excuse carries liability to a fine of $1,000.
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The object of this measure is, of course, to
facilitate detection of illegal immigrants. The latter
will no longer be issued with identity cards. Consequently anyone, say, found by the Police in a stop and search operation at a road block without an identity card or other proof of identity will be suspect. If, after questioning, the person is able, by some other means, to identity himself as a genuine resident, he or she will be released, though that person will remain liable to a
fine for failure to carry proof of identity.
therefore, in the individual's interests
It is,
if only to avoid
personal inconvenience and embarrassment as well as in
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the interest of the community at large, that this require- ment should be complied with. It will make the large scale
checks and controls at, for example, road blocks, much easier and quicker to carry out; and at the same time help to flush out illegal immigrants hoping to avoid detection.
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