THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH FEBRUARY, 1898.
any
3. THE immigration into Western Australia by land or sea of any person of Prohibited of the classes defined in the following sub-sections of this section, hereinafter called immigrants. "prohibited immigrant," is prohibited, namely:-
(a.) Any person who, on being asked to do so by an officer appointed under this Act, shall fail to himself write out, in the presence of such officer,
in the characters of any language of Europe, a passage in English of fifty words in length taken by such officer from a British author, and to append his name thereto in his own language;
(b.) Any person being a pauper or likely to become a public charge ; (c.) Any idiot or insane person;
(d.) Any person suffering from a loathsoine or dangerous contagious disease; (e.) Any person who has within three years been convicted of a felony or infamous crime, or a misdemeanour involving moral turpitude, and not being a mere political offence, and has not received a pardon there- for; and
(f) Any prostitute and any person living on the prostitution of others.
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4. EVERY prohibited immigrant making his way into or being found within Unlawful entry Western Australia, in disregard of this Act, shall be deemed to have contravened this immigrants. Act, and shall be liable, in addition to any other penalty, to be removed from the Colony, and upon conviction may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than six months without hard labour: Provided that such imprisonment shall cease for the purpose of the offender being conveyed out of the Colony, or if he shall find two approved sureties each in the sum of Fifty pounds for his leaving the Colony within one month.
certain conditions.
5. ANY person appearing to be a prohibited immigrant within the meaning of Eutry permitted on the Third Section of this Act, and not coining within the meaning of sub-sections (c.), (d.), (e.), or (f.) thereof, shall be allowed to be in Western Australia upon the follow- ing conditions→→
(a.) He shall, at lauding in or entering the Colony, deposit with an officer
appointed under this Act the sum of One hundred pounds;
(b.) If such person shall, within fourteen days after entering the Colony, obtain from the Colonial Secretary, or person appointed under this Act, a certificate that he does not come within the prohibition of this Act, the deposit of One hundred pounds shall be returned;
(e.) If such person shall fail to obtain such certificate within fourteen days, the deposit of One hundred pounds may be forfeited, and he may be treated as a prohibited immigrant:
Provided that, in the case of a person entering the Colony under this section, no penalty shall attach to any vessel, or the owners of any vessel, in which he shall have arrived at any port of the Colony.
6. EVERY person who shall satisfy the Colonial Secretary, or an officer appointed Persons possessed of under this Act, that he does not come within the meaning of any of the sub-sections (c.), (d.), (e.), or (f.) of the Third Section of this Act, and—
(a.) That he is and for the preceding two years has been the registered owner of an estate in fee simple in real estate of the value of Three hundred pounds in Western Australia; or
(b.) That he is or has formerly been domiciled in Western Australia, and possesses a certificate of the Colonial Secretary or an officer appointed under this Act under which he is then anthorised to return to the Colony;
shall not be deemed a prohibited immigrant.
property in Western
ciled or lately domiciled there.
Australia, or domi-
7. THE wife and every minor child of any person not being a prohibited im- Wives and children migrant, or forbidden to enter the Colony, shall be free from any prohibition imposed prohibited from by this Act.
8. THE master and owners of any vessel from which any prohibited immigrant is landed shall be jointly and severally liable to a penalty of not less than One hundred pounds, and not more than Five hundred pounds for each prohibited immigrant so landed.
The vessel may be arrested and sold by order of the Supreme Court in satisfaction of any such penalty, or may be refused a clearance cutward until such penalty has been paid and until provision has been made by the master or owners to the satisfaction of an officer appointed under this Act for the conveyance out of the Colony of each prohibited immigrant who has been so landed.
of persons not
entering Western Australia.
Liability of master
and owners of ship for illegal landing
of immigrants.