Immigration Service Ordinance

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|short_title = Immigration Service Ordinance

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|long_title = An Ordinance to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a service to be known as the Immigration Service, to vest certain powers in its members and to provide for matters connected with the purposes aforesaid.

|citation = {{Cite Hong Kong ordinance|331}}

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|enacted_by = Legislative Council of Hong Kong

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|introduced_by = Acting Chief Secretary Edmund Brinsley Teesdale

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|bill_date = 23 June 1961

|1st_reading = 21 June 1961

|2nd_reading = 2 August 1961

|3rd_reading = 2 August 1961

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The Immigration Service Ordinance is Chapter 331 of Hong Kong's Ordinances. It was introduced in 1961 as Cap 30 to create the Immigration Department (Hong Kong) which was previously under the control of Hong Kong Police Force since the 1940s.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hklii.hk/eng/hk/legis/ord/331/longtitle.html|title = CAP 331 IMMIGRATION SERVICE ORDINANCE Long Title}}

The Ordinance also resulted in the transfer of Registration of Persons Ordinance 1949 and role of Commissioner of Registration from the Hong Kong Police to Immigration Department.