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appears to the Director of Immigration that that person was previously resident in Vietnam.

This

subsection has been re-enacted annually and will expire on 31 December 1987 unless extended by

resolution of this Council.

Parts VIIA and VIIB of the Ordinance were

enacted in August 1979 to provide for more effective

control of trafficking in unlawful immigration. Under these provisions, any person who aids illegal immigrants to enter Hong Kong commits an offence.

Offenders are liable on conviction to a fine up to

million and imprisonment for life, while the ships

and other property involved are liable to

forfeiture. These two parts have also been

re-enacted annually and will expire on 31 December

1987 unless extended.

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A Siv, The

reasons why we still need these

provisions are unfortunately only too clear.

Our

Vietnamese refugee problems are still with us.

There

54 per cent

has been a,524 increase in arrivals from Vietnam this

compared with last year

year

3.119

In the first ten months of 1987, a total of

3026 Vietnamese refugees arrived, compared with 2026

of

94, in the corresponding period 1986.

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