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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Draft Bills.

No. S. 286.-The following Bills are published for general information:-

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[No. 16-28.5.40.-1.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Immigration and Passports

Ordinance, 1934.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Immigration and Passports Amendment Ordinance, 1940.

2. Sub-section (3) of Section 11 of the Immigration and of Ordinance Passports Ordinance, 1934, is amended by the addition, after the words shall be paid " at the end thereof, of the words-

No. 8 of 1934, s. 11 (3).

unless reciprocal arrangements exist with the country of which the holder is a national for dispensing with fees for permits of the same or similar effect

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 11 (3) of the principal Ordinance provides that the holder of a valid passport or travel document which bears an endorsement defining a limited period of stay in the Colony shall not remain in the Colony after the period has expired: Provided that the period of his stay may be extended with the consent of the Commissioner of Police for which consent the official signature fee of $5.00 shall be paid.

2. It may be argued that this ordinary Official Signature Fee is in effect the statutory fee for a temporary residential permit.

3. This Bill will add words at the end of the section which will waive the fee where reciprocal arrangements exist with the country of which the holder of the passport or travel document is a national for dispensing with fees for permits of the same or similar effect.

June, 1940.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.