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Establish- ment of depôts.
Duties of masters of vessels on arrival.
No external communica
examination.
(2) A Deputy Immigration and an Assistant Immigration Officer shall, subject to such limitations as may be prescribed or as may be imposed on them by superior administrative instructions, have all the powers and may perform any of the duties of the Immigration Officer.
4. The Governor may by notification in the Gazette appoint a depôt or any number of depôts for the admission and examination of passengers and seamen and generally for the purposes of this Ordinance.
5.-(1) The master of every vessel (not being or having the status of a ship of war) arriving at or approaching a port of the Colony shall hoist the signal flag "S" over the code pennant, or such other signals as may be prescribed by the Governor in Council, and shall keep such signals hoisted until authorized by the Immigration Officer to take them down.
(2) Every such master shall, if so ordered by the Immigration Officer, anchor or tie up his vessel at such place as may be ordered and shall remain there until the Immigra- tion Officer gives him permission to leave.
(3) Every such master shall when required to do so by the Immigration Officer-
(a) produce all his ship's papers,
(b) furnish complete lists of the seamen and passengers on board,
(c) muster such seamen with his own and their identi- fication cards for interrogation and inspection,
(d) muster all passengers for interrogation and inspec- tion,
(e) report the presence of any stowaway or deportee on board.
(4) Every person so mustered shall truthfully answer all questions and inquiries, tending to establish his identity, nationality or occupation, put to him by the officer in charge of the examination notwithstanding that the answer to any such question may tend to incriminate him, and any such person shall on demand disclose and produce to such officer all documents in his possession tending to establish his identity, nationality or occupation. All such answers and documents shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings under this Ordinance against the person making, disclosing or producing the same: Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as rendering such answers or documents inadmissible in any other proceedings in which they would otherwise be admissible.
6.—(1) Until the release of the vessel from examination no person (other than a licensed pilot or officers of the tion pending Immigration, Harbour, Medical, Revenue or Police Depart- ments, and persons in their vessels, or a person authorized thereto by an Immigration Officer) shall approach within thirty yards of the vessel under inspection or hold any communica- tion with such vessel or with any person on board thereof and no seaman or passenger under inspection may leave or attempt to leave such vessel or land or attempt to land without the permission of the Immigration Officer.
(2) Every passenger who conceals or attempts to conceal his presence on board or falsely represents himself to be a seaman employed in the vessel shall be deemed, until the
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