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9. No passport or travel document shall be deemed to Require be valid unless--

ments for the validity of passports

documents.

(a) an indication, either specific or in general terms, and travel which is not invalidated by any other indorsement, appears thereon to the effect that the passport or travel document is valid for Hong Kong:

(b) it was issued or renewed to the holder, in the case of a passport by or on behalf of the Government of the Country or State of which he is a subject or citizen, and in the case of a travel document by a competent Official, not more than five years before the arrival of the holder in the Colony and that it is still within the period of its validity if any such period be stated.

(c) it has a photograph of the person or persons to whom it relates so affixed as to obviate the possibility of its removal and the substitution of another photograph: Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in the case of any Pardanashin or Gosha woman; and

(d) in the case of a person who is neither a British subject nor a British protected person, it bears a visa. by a British Consular Officer in a foreign Country or State or by a duly authorised Official in some part of His Majesty's dominions, which was granted not more than one year before the arrival of such person in the Colony and is still within the period of its validity, and which is either specifically or generally applicable to the journey on which the holder is engaged or which he has completed by his arrival in the Colony Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in the case of a person included in any agreement, applicable to this Colony, between His Majesty's Government or the Govern. ment of this Colony and any other Government, for the mutual abolition or waiver of visas.

travel

10. Neither the possession of a valid passport or travel Valid document nor any visa or endorsement thereon shall be passport or deemed to imply that the holder will be permitted to land in document the Colony, or, if allowed to land, that he will be permitted right to

implies no to stay in the Colony; nor shall it serve as any excuse for land or to disobeying any deportation, banishment or expulsion order. stay in the

Colony.

as to transit

endorse-

11.-(1) The holder of a valid passport or travel Provisions document with a visa authorising transit only through the visas and Colony shall not remain in the Colony longer than is reason- limiting ably necessary to enable him to tranship or to find other ments. means by which to proceed to his destination; and the holder of a passport or travel document with a visa authorising direct transit only shall proceed to his destination by the earliest means of transport of which he can reasonably avail himself: Provided that in either case the duration of the stay in the Colony of any such holder may be extended with the consent in writing of the Inspector General of Police, for which consent there shall be charged either the Official Signature fee of $5 or a fee equal to the difference between the cost of a transit visa and the cost of an ordinary visa in the case in question, whichever fee be the higher.

(2) Where the holder of a valid passport or travel document is an alien, who has not resided in the Colony for more than one month since his last arrival therein, it shall be lawful for the Inspector General of Police to make an endorsement thereon, without fee, defining a limited period during which the alien may stay in the Colony.

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