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Draft Bill.
No. S. 121.-The following bill is published for general information:-
Short title.
C.S.O. 3255/15/III.
A BILL
[No. 4:-26.3.34.—4.]
INTITULED
An Ordinance to regulate the entry and departure of persons into and out of the Colony, to prohibit the entry of undesirable immigrants and to confer various powers in connection therewith.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Immigration and Passports Ordinance, 1934.
Police
of ships.
PART I.
Examination of Immigrants and Landing Restrictions.
2.-(1) It shall be lawful for any police officer, authorised examination thereto in writing by the Inspector General of Police either generally or for a particular occasion, to board any ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) and to examine the articles of such ship, the passengers and crew and the passports and travel documents of the passengers.
(2) The master of every such ship shall, when hailed or otherwise called upon to do so by any such authorised police officer, hoist the signal flag "S" over the code pennant and shall keep the said flag and pennant hoisted until authorised by the police officer to take it down.
(3) While such flag and pennant remain hoisted, no person (other than police officers, the pilot or the Port Health Officer) shall leave or board any such ship without the permission of the said authorised police officer nor shall any person (other than the persons in the vessels of the police, the pilot or the Port Health Officer) approach within thirty yards of the ship.
(4) The master of every such ship shall, whenever required to do so by any such authorised police officer—
(a) exhibit a complete list of the crew;
(b) furnish a complete list of the passengers arranged alphabetically, specifying their nationality, place of birth, calling or occupation, so far as the same can be ascertained, the ports at which they embarked and the ports of intended disembarkation;
(c) produce the passengers and crew for inspection and interrogation.