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ALIENS.
conviction before a Police Court to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and in default of payment to imprisonment of either description for any term not exceeding six months.
(2) Any alien who lands or disembarks, or attempts to land or disembark, contrary to the provisions of the said sections, shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 14, to have been brought into and landed in the Colony contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance.
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owner,
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an alien
11. (1) The master and the owner, charterer or Liability of agent of a ship from which an alien lands or disembarks or attempts to land or disembark contrary to the provi- charterer sions of section 5 or of section 8 (2) shall be liable on of a ship conviction before a Police Court to a fine not exceeding from which one hundred dollars in respect of each alien so landed wrongfully or disembarked or so attempting to land or disembark. lands.
(2) It shall be no defence to a prosecution under this section that the master, owner, character or agent did not permit or do anything to facilitate the landing or disembarking of any alien.
(3) It shall be a defence to a prosecution under this section that the master, owner, charterer or agent took every reasonable precaution to prevent the landing or disembarking of any alien.
(4) No prosecution under this section shall be com- menced later than six months after the date of the alleged offence.
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the Colony.
12.-(1) The Governor in Council may, by procla- Limit may mation in the Gazette, to be published not less than be imposed one month before the first day of the month to which of aliens it relates, limit the number of aliens, not being transit landing in passenger aliens, which any shipping company or charterer or owner of any individual ship may bring into and land in the Colony during any month, and such limit may be based on registered tonnage or on any other basis whatsoever :
Provided that nothing shall prevent any shipping company or charterer or owner of any individual ship from bringing into and landing in the Colony during any month a number of aliens (other than transit pas- senger aliens), not exceeding twenty-five of any one nationality.
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