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Repeal of section 37T.
4.
Section 37T of the principal Ordinance is
repealed.
Addition of Schedule.
G.F. 323
5. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding
after section 65 the following -
"SCHEDULE
Vietnam.".
[s.
s. 18.7
Explanatory Memorandum
Section 18(2) of the principal Ordinance
restricts to a period of 2 months the power of an
immigration officer to remove from Hong Kong a person
who is refused permission to land. In 1979 this was
considered too short a period in the case of persons
from Vietnam particularly in light of the numbers who
were arriving from that country and who would normally
be refused permission to land. Section 18(3) was then
enacted as a temporary measure to exclude the applica-
tion of section 18(2) to persons previously resident
in Vietnam. It is now considered desirable that it
should become part of the permanent law of Hong Kong.
Clause 2 therefore repeals the expiry provision in
section 18(4) of the principal Ordinance. It also
provides that section 18(2) shall not apply to persons
previously resident in any country specified in the
Schedule to the Ordinance (see clause 5). Clause 2
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