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in default of payment to imprisonment of either description for any term not exceeding six months.
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to be with-
in certain circum-
19.—(1) The Immigration Officer shall not refuse to Landing issue a landing permit to any alien who has paid the permit not landing fee unless, after inquiry, it is found that such held except alien
(a) is diseased, maimed, blind, idiot, lunatic, or stances. decrepit not having the means of subsistence and may be hindered by his diseased, blind or disabled state from earning a livelihood;
or
(b) cannot show that he has in his possession the means of decently supporting himself and his dependants, if any, or that he has definite employment awaiting him or, in the opinion of the Immigration Officer, a reason- able prospect of obtaining employment; or (c) is a professional beggar or vagrant or a person likely to become a charge upon the public or upon any public or charitable institution; or (d) is a person suffering from a contagious disease
which is loathsome or dangerous; or
(e) has been banished from any country or has been shipped from any country by the Gov- ernment of such country with a view to his being repatriated; or
(f) is a prostitute or a person living on the earnings
of prostitution; or
(g) is suspected of being likely to promote sedition or to cause a disturbance of public tran- quillity.
(2) The Immigration Officer shall furnish, on request, to any alien who has been refused a landing permit under subsection (1) a statement in writing setting forth the reasons for his decision.
(3) Any alien who has been refused a landing permit under subsection (1) may, within 48 hours of such refusal being intimated to him, appeal against the decision of the Immigration Officer to the Local Authority whose decision shall be final.
(4) Any alien who has been refused a landing permit may be detained in a depôt or, at the discretion of the Local Authority, may be removed to any other place
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