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CONFIDENTIAL

HONG KONG IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE

6.

As to reference to the Hong Kong Immigration Ordinance,

it is considered bad practice to relate UK law directly to the

laws of a Dependent Territory, which may be changed without

reference to the UK Parliament. Furthermore, the Immigration

Ordinance will not stand beyond 30 June 1997, whereas this Order

is intended to remain in effect indefinitely. It would not be

appropriate to have to refer after 1997 to an Ordinance which

was no longer extant.

Scope for amendment

7.

Highly undesirable. If essential it may be possible to

replace Article 2 as currently drafted with the Annexed List of

persons affected. But the List would need conveying into precise legal language and the result would be long, complex and difficult

to understand.