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Any new Immigration Act ought to satisfy criteria which will make its spirit easily grasped by all people interested in the subject: it ought to be concise; it ought to spell out clearly a set of positive and basic principles governing regulations which will be issued from time to time to implement the Act - it being recognized that while the regulations themselves must be revised from time to time to make the Act applicable to changing circumstances, yet these must at all time represent in practice the spirit of the Act. Thus we agree with what the Green Paper indicated (Highlights Vol. 1 p. 18).