Provision for appeal by master if dissatisfied with action of the authorised police officer.
Master, owners, agents and consignees liable for cost of
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the authorised police officer may refuse such person permission to land or may prevent him from landing or may take him into police custody and detain him until an apportunity arises of returning him to his port of embarkation or to the country of his birth or citizenship.
(2) The master of the ship shall give to the authorised police officer any information relating to any person on board his ship suspected of belonging to any of the classes of persons mentioned in sub-section (1) as is reasonably required for the purposes of this Ordinance, and shall answer to the best of his knowledge all such questions touching such person as are put to him.
5. If the master of the ship is dissatisfied with the action taken by the authorised police officer under section 3 (3) or section 4 (1) the matter may be referred by the master to the Inspector General of Police, or in the case of persons mentioned in paragraphs (a) or (d) of section 4 (1) to the Port Health Officer, who shall decide the matter.
6. In cases where any person is prevented from landing or detained under section 3 (3) or section 4 (1) the master of the ship shall provide him with a free passage to the port of his embarkation, and if the ship has left the maintenance Colony without such person being on board the master, owner, agent, charterer and consignee of the ship shall be liable to pay to the Government of the Colony all costs incurred by the Colony for the maintenance and removal of such person to the port of his embarkation.
and removal of prohibited immigrant.
Persons exempted from
provisions
of Part II.
Necessity for valid passport or travel document
PART II.
Passports and Travel Documents.
7. The provisions of this Part of this Ordinance shall not apply to-
(a) persons of or under the age of fifteen years;
(b) persons of Chinese race;
(c) persons who pass through the waters of the Colony without landing in the Colony; and
(d) persons employed in any capacity in the service of any ship, who arrive in the Colony and leave in the same ship on her next departure.
8. No person to whom this Part of this Ordinance applies shall enter the Colony unless he has in his possession-
(a) a valid passport; or
(b) some other valid travel document establishing his nationality and identity and authorising him to travel to and enter the Colony issued or endorsed, in the case of a British subject or British protected person by a competent British Official, and in other cases by an Official having authority to issue or endorse such a document in respect to the person in question.
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