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13. Subject to this Bill being passed in Council today, and to the

necessary, financial resources being voted by the Finance Committee of

this Council, it is therefore the Government's intention to establish

closed camps with effect from 2 July 1982. Chi Ma Wan is immediately

available for this purpose. Once funds are approved construction will

also start immediately on another closed camp on Hei Ling Chau so

that it is ready, if needed, early next year. All Vietnamese refugees

arriving in Hong Kong on, or after, 2 July 1982 will be detained in

these camps.

Refugees

14. Camps will be managed by the Correctional Services Department

who have already rendered such sterling service in looking after

refugees. The system of management and control will be similar to that

already applied to detainees under the Immigration Ordinance.

will be confined and subject to regulation and control. Members of

families will not be separated but will be accommodated together in

the same camp. We shall keep this arrangement under review. Contact

with the general public will be restricted, although arrangements

for visits will be made as appropriate.

with UNHCR about their access to the refugees which we will arrange.

We are also in discussion

15.

The Immigration (Amendment) Bill 1982 gives effect to this new

policy. It provides the Government with the necessary powers to set

up, closed camps, to detain refugees in them and to draw up rules for

their good management.

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