2794
Schedule.
Arrest and search.
Presumptions.
No. 35 of 1923.
PASSPORTS.
(b) for enforcing such prohibition by requiring answers to inquiries, and by arrest, search, detention and expulsion; and (c) generally for the purpose of establishing and maintaining control over the admission of persons into the Colony.
(2) The regulations in the Schedule shall be in force except as they may be altered or amended by regulations made under this Ordinance.
(3) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution is passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded, or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded, or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
3.-(1) It shall be lawful for any police officer to arrest any person whom he may reasonably suspect of having committed an offence against this Ordinance, and to search any such person and the effects of any such person wherever situate. Provided that no female shall be searched except by a female.
(2) No person shall resist or obstruct any such arrest or search.
4.--(1) In any prosecution under this Ordinance, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed-
(a) that the accused was not an exempted person at the time of the alleged offence;
(b) that the accused was not a British subject at the time of the alleged offence; and
(c) that the accused entered the Colony after the commencement of this Ordinance.
(2) If any person, upon demand by any police officer, produces neither a valid passport nor some other official document establishing his nationality and identity which has been approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that such person entered the Colony without a valid passport.