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(2) The Immigration Officer may demand and take such security, not exceeding in value two hundred and fifty dollars, as he may deem fit to ensure the due fulfilment of any such condition.

(3) Any person who fails to furnish any security demanded under sub-section (2) may-

(a) be refused permission to land or disembark in the Colony and be detained on board the vessel in which he arrived; or

(6) be removed to a place of detention ashore and there detained pending an opportunity of returning hit to his port of embarkation or of sending him to his destination; or

(a) if he is in a depôt be either returned to the vessel in which he arrived or detained in the depot or other suitable place of detention pending an opportunity of removing hira from the Colony.

(4) Any person who fails to comply with any condition imposed under sub-section (1) may be dealt with in the same manner as a person who fails to furnish security may be dealt with under sub-section (3) and the Immigration Officer may also, in his discretion. forfeit any security taken from such person under sub-section (2).

(5) The Immigration Officer may at any time vary or remove wholly or in part any of the conditions imposed under sub-section (1).

14.-(1) Whenever under any provision of this Ordin- ance any person has been refused permission to land on disembark, or whenever any person has landed or dis- embarked in the Colony in contravention of any provision of this Ordinance, the master of the vessel, if so ordered by the Immigration Officer shall when necessary, re-embark such person and shall remove such person from the Colony in his vessel. If such vessel shall have left the Colony before such person could be re-embarked thereon, or in any other case with the consent of the Immigration Officer, such person may

be detained at the depôt or other suitable place of detention pending an opportunity of remov ing him from the Colony and all or any of the following persons, that is to say, the master, owner, agent, charterer and consignee of the vessel shall be liable to pay to the Immigration Officer all costs and charges incurred in respect of such maintenance and removal.

(2) If any person to whom permission to land or dis- embark has been refused shall find security to the satisfaction of the Immigration Officer that he will leave the Colony in a particular vessel approved by the Immigration Officer, such person may be released from detention pending his departure from the Colony in the said vessel. If such person fails to depart by the approved vessel he shall be liable to the penal- ties provided by section 22.

15. Every master may use and employ, with such assistance as he may require, all reasonable means, including force and restraint if he deems it necessary, to secure the continued presence on board of any person who has not been permitted to land or disembark.

16-(1) No seaman shall land or disembark from any vessel except with the permission of the Immigration Officer. Such permission may be subject to any condition which the Immigration Officer may think fit to impose.

(2) The Immigration Officer may take such security aa he deems fit, whether by way of deposit or otherwise from the master, owner, charterer, agent or consignee of the vessel from which he has reasonable cause to suspect that any seaman any

is about to land contrary to, or to secure the fulfilment of condition imposed by, sub-section (1), and may refuse to release the vessel from examination until such security is furnished.

(3) When any seaman is about to be, or is discharged or paid off in the Colony the master shall as soon as practicable notify the Immigration Officer.

(4) Any seaman so discharged or paid off may be required to attend before the Immigration Officer for inquiry, and for this purpose the Immigration Officer may by general notice or otherwise designate the class or classes of seamen or any particular seaman required to attend for such inquiry.

(5) The master of any vessel may detain any of his scamen, to whom a notice under sub-section (4) applies, until

an opportunity occurs of bringing him before the Immigration Officer for such inquiry: Provided that such seaman shall be brought before the Immigration Officer as soon as conveniently may be after his discharge or paying off.

(6) If any seaman is left behind in the Colony be may be kept and maintained in a depôt or other suitable place pending an opportunity of returning him to his port of engagement or discharge or to the country of which he is n national, and all or any of the following persons that is to say the master, owner, agent, charterer and consignee of the vessel leaving him behind shall be liable to pay to the Immigration Offer all costs and charges incurred in respect of his maintenance and removal.

17. The provisions of this Ordinance relating to vessels Application and the masters, soamen, slowaways, and passengers therein, to immigra Lium by war, shall apply equally, as far as practicable, to aircraft and the pilots, crew, stowaways and passengers therein.

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18. In addition to the issuing of the documents referred Part to in section 12 the Immigration Officer shall be charged with Office to be the duty of the administration of the Passport Office in the by the Colony and shall be authorized to collect in relation thereto Immigration the fees mentioned in the Schedule.

Offcor. Schedule.

Council,

of 1935,

19-(1) Whenever any person is dissatisfied with the Appeal to exercise of the discretion of any person to whom discretionary Governor in power is given under this Ordinance in respect of any act, Ordin. matter, or thing, which is by this Ordinance made subject to a No. 18 the exercise of the discretion of such authority, or with any 161.3. action or decision of any such person either as to the carrying out of or the meaning of any of the provisions of this Ordin- ance, or whenever any of the provisions of this Ordinance are, owing to special conditions, undesirable, the person sa dissatisfied may, unless proceedings have already been taken before a magistrate in relation thereto, appeal to the Governor in Council, who, if in his opinion the exercise of such discretion or such action or decision requires modifica- tion, revocation, or setting aside, or such special conditions exist as render any such provision undesirable, may make such order in respect thereof as may be just.

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