{"id":21641,"date":"2012-10-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2012\/10\/20121005_160219.shtml"},"modified":"2012-10-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T04:00:00","slug":"torture-amendment-gazetted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/10\/05\/torture-amendment-gazetted\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture amendment gazetted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/CGO2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Immigration (Amendment) Ordinance 2012 (Commencement) Notice was published in the Gazette today, to establish a statutory process for determining torture claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance was passed on July 13 by the Legislative Council to establish a statutory process for determining torture claims made under Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture &amp; Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The amendment provides for a statutory process for making and determining claims, including how a torture claim is made, the time limit for a claimant to return the torture claim form, and the requirements for the Immigration Department to arrange screening interviews and issue written notices of decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It also stipulates a claimant who is aggrieved by the decision can lodge an appeal, which will be handled by a statutory Torture Claims Appeal Board.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the enhanced screening mechanism from December 24, 2009, to the end of last month, the department has made decisions on 2,361 torture claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To date, only one case has been substantiated under the previous screening mechanism before December 24, 2009. There are at present 5,300 cases pending processing. In 2012-13, the department aims to complete processing 1,500 or more cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The notice will be tabled at the Legislative Council on October 10 so the amended ordinance can come into force on December 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Immigration (Amendment) Ordinance 2012 (Commencement) Notice was published in the Gazette today, to establish a statutory process for determining torture claims.\u00a0The ordinance was passed on July 13 by the Legislative Council to establish a statuto&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}