Hong Kong Ordinances

IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 13C

Designation of refugee centres

(1) The Secretary for Security may by order designate any place as a
refugee centre for the residence of Vietnamese refugees. (Amended 42 of 1982
s. 6; 48 of 1992 s. 5)

(2) The Secretary for Security may make rules providing for the treatment, and
control of conduct, of Vietnamese refugees in refugee  centres and for the
management and security of, and the maintenance of order, discipline,
cleanliness and hygiene in, refugee centres, and different rules may be made
in respect of different centres. (Replaced 42 of 1982 s. 6)

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2), rules made under
that subsection may provide for-

   (a)  contravention of any provision thereof to be punished by the
        imposition of a penalty not exceeding $500 and by separate confinement
        for a period not exceeding 28 days; (Amended 42 of 1982 s. 6)

   (b)  the confinement of persons punished by separate confinement;

   (c)  the imposition, by a specified public officer, of such punishment for
        such contravention;

   (d)  appeals against the imposition of punishment and the practice and
        procedure relating to such appeals;

   (e)  the payment and the disposal of monetary penalties in any manner
        whatsoever.

(4)-(5) (Repealed 48 of 1992 s. 5)