1) Attached please find a copy of the
Citizens' Exit and Entry
Control Law of the People's Republic of China as reproduced in
a BBC press release.
2) Attached please find a copy of Article 176 of the
Criminal
Code of the People's Republic of China. The penalties specified
by Article 176 are different from those of the
Citizens' Exit
and Entry Control Law of the People's Republic of China.
Whereas the former stipulates that:
[a] person who, in violation of immigration control regulations,
illegally crosses the national boundary shall, if the crime is of a
serious nature, be sentenced to either fixed-term imprisonment for
not more than one year, detention or public surveillance (1979,
70),
Article 14 of the latter stipulates that:
[t]he public security organisations may give warnings to, or detain
for a period of 10 days or less, persons who have illegally left or
entered the territory; who have forged or altered their passports;
who have used other people's passports; or who have transferred
their exit or entry certificates to others, in contravention of the
stipulations of this law (BBC Summary 26 Nov. 1985, 3).
Please refer to the attachments for additional information on the
above subjects.
References
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 26
November 1985. "Chinese Citizens' Entry and Exit Control Law."
(NEXIS)
The Criminal Code of the People's
Republic of China. 1979.
Attachments
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 26
November 1985. "Chinese Citizens' Entry and Exit Control Law," pp.
1-4. (NEXIS)
The Criminal Code of the People's
Republic of China. 1979, p. 70.