TNAG-1199-FCO40-1501-Hong-Kong-immigration-legislation-1982 — Page 139

FR.

SLCTION ONE:

PART I:

General

CONTROL ON ENTRY

INTRODUCTORY

2. Immigration Officers will carry out their duties without regard to the

race, colour or religion of people seeking to enter the United Kingdom

3. A person must, on arrival in the United Kingdom, produce on request by

the Immigration Officer a valid national passport or other document satis-

factorily establishing his identity and nationality.* Everyone arriving in

the United Kingdom is liable to be examined and must furnish the Immigration

Officer with such information as may be required for the purpose of deciding

whether he requires leave to enter and, if whether and on what terms

leave should be given.

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So,

4. A British citizen and a person who is not a British citizen but has the

right of abode does not require leave to enter. A person who claims to be a

British citizen because he was on 31 December a citizen of the United Kingdom

and Colonies with the right of abode under section 2(1)(c) or section 2(2)

of the Act as then in force, and a person who is not a British citizen_but__

claims to have the right of abode, must prove he has the right of abode by

producing a certificate of entitlement duly issued to him by a British Government.

representative overseas or by the Home Office, unless he can meet the require-

mentions of section 3(9)(a) or (b) of the Act' as amended by the 1981 Act;

otherwise he requires leave to enter. Any other person requires leave to enter.

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Nationality Identity cards, in conjunction with Visitors' cards, may be accepted in lieu of passports from nationals of countries with which an agreement to that effect has been concluded; but visitors' cards are valid only for visits of 6 months or less and may not be used by passengers coming for employment. Nationals of Belgium, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Italy Luxemburg and the Netherlands may use valid national identity cards instead of passports.

+ A citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies had the right of abode under section 2(1)(c) of the Act as then in force if he had at any time been settled in the United Kingdom and Islands and had at that time (and while such a citizen) been ordinarily resident there for the last 5 years of more; a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies had the right of abode under section 2(2) of the Act as then in force if she was the wife of a man who had the right of abode, or had at any time been the wife of a man who then had the right of abode.

A person who claims to be a British citizen may prove he has the right of abode by producing a United Kingdom passport describing him as such a citizen or as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies with the right of abode (Section 3(9)(a)). A woman who claims to be a British citizen because on

31 December she was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies with the right of abode under section 2(2) of the Act as then in force need not produce a certificate of entitlement if she can show that she had the right of abode on that date apart from any reference in section 2(2) to section 2(1)(c)_or_(d)_ as then in force (section 3(9)(b)).

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