Four amendment orders have been made to enable the Correctional Services Department to transfer the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre's management back to the Immigration Department in mid-April.

The Immigration (Treatment of Detainees) (Amendment) Order 2010 will enable the rules relating to the treatment of detainees, as set out in Schedule 1 of the principal order, to apply to the centre.

The amendment order will also add two provisions. One is to ensure the continuation of visits by justices of the centre, and the other is to ensure the current arrangement allowing detainees to smoke in the centre's designated areas can continue.

The other three amendment orders are the Prisons (Amendment) Order 2010, the Immigration (Places of Detention) (Amendment) Order 2010 and the Smoking (Public Health) Ordinance (Amendment of Schedule 2) Order 2010. They are all technical amendments.

The detainees are not convicted or sentenced prisoners, but are people under investigation or pending removal under the Immigration Ordinance. The actual treatment of detainees will not be affected before and after the transfer of the centre's management.

The four amendment orders will be gazetted on Friday and will take effect from April 15.