Hong Kong Ordinances

IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 10

Special provisions as to servicemen

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 28 of 1998 s. 2(2)

(1) A serviceman may land in Hong Kong without the permission of an
immigration officer or immigration assistant.

(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, any such serviceman who ceases to be a
serviceman shall thereupon, unless he enjoys the right of  abode in Hong Kong,
or has the right to land in Hong Kong by virtue of section 2AAA, be deemed to
be a person seeking to land in Hong Kong; and an immigration officer or
immigration assistant may examine him under section 4(1)(a) within 28 days
after- (Amended 88 of 1997 s. 6; 28 of 1998 s. 2(2))

   (a)  he ceases to be a serviceman; or

   (b)  if at the time he ceases to be a serviceman he is detained in
        pursuance of the sentence or order of any court, his discharge from
        detention. (Amended 31 of 1987 s. 9)

(3) Any such person who does not submit himself to examination under
section 4(1)(a) within the period during which in accordance with subsection
(2) he may be examined by an immigration officer or immigration  assistant
under that section shall on the expiry of that period be deemed for the
purposes of this Ordinance to have landed in Hong Kong without the permission
of an immigration officer or immigration assistant. (Amended 15 of 1980 s. 10)