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LS.

HONG KONG.

No. 32 of 1940.

Lassent.

E. F. NORTON,

Officer Administering the Government.

29th November, 1940.

An Ordinance to regulate the entry and departure of persons into and out of the Colony, to prohibit the entry of undesirable immigrants and to confer various powers in connexion therewith.

[29th November, 1940.]

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 Short title. Control Ordinance, 1940.

2. In this Ordinance-

Interpreta-

tion.

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'Depôt" means a depôt established under section 4;

. 'Master means the person, other than a pilot licensed and registered under the Pilots Ordinance, 1930, having Ordinance. command or charge of any vessel;

No. 11 of 1930.

'Passenger' means any person, other than the master, pilot and seamen, carried in a vessel, and includes cf. Ordín- a stowaway and a seaman seeking to land for discharge;

"Through passenger" means any passenger who is travelling to a place outside the Colony and who is to continue his journey in the vessel by which he arrived;

"Port of the Colony" means any port for the time being included as a port of the Colony in Table W of the Regulations under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899;

ance No. 3 of 1924.

ance No. 10

'Seaman includes every person (except masters, cf. Ordin pilots, and apprentices duly indentured and registered) em- of 1999, ployed or engaged in any capacity on board any vessel;

s. 2(m).

Vessel " includes any description of vessel used in c. Ordin- navigation.

ance No. 10 of 1899,

s. 2(g).

of Immigra

3.-(1) The Governor may appoint any person, either Appointment. by name or office, to be the Immigration Officer for the tion Officer, purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance, and Deputies & also such number of Deputy Immigration Officers and Assistant Immigration Officers as he may think fit.

Assistants.

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