Production
of documents on demand.
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(3) The holder of a valid passport or travel document which bears an endorsement defining a limited period of stay in the Colony shall not remain in the Colony after the period has expired: Provided that the period of his stay may be extended with the consent in writing of the Inspector General of Police, for which consent the Official Signature fee of $5 shall be paid.
12. Every person who possesses a passport or other official document tending directly or indirectly to establish his identity, nationality or occupation, or any absolute or conditional liability on his part to any naval, military of air-force service under any country or state whatsoever, shall upon demand by any police officer produce such passport or other document forthwith for inspection or for endorsement.
Penalties.
Arrest and search.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 35 of 1923.
PART III.
General.
13.-(1) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, upon summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(2) Every person who lands without the permission of the authorised police officer under section 2 (3), or who lands without such permission after permission to land has been refused under section 3 (3) or section 4 (1), or who con- travenes any of the provisions of section 8 or section 11, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, in addition to the penalties imposed by sub-section (1), to be expelled from the Colony by order of the convicting magistrate.
(3) Any such order shall have the effect of authorising any police officer to arrest and detain such person and to do all such other acts as may be necessary to enable such person to be expelled from the Colony by such ship or route as the Governor may determine.
14. It shall be lawful for any Police officer authorised thereto in writing by the Inspector General of Police, either generally or for a particular occasion, to enter any place or vessel (not being or having the status of a ship of war), and to arrest any person whom he may reasonably suspect of having committed an offence against any provision of this Ordinance, and to search any such person and the effects of any such person: provided that no female shall be searched except by a female.
15. The Passports Ordinance, 1923, is repealed.
Commence- ment.
16. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless the Governor notifies by Proclamation that it is His Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Governor shall notify by the same or any other Proclamation.
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