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Immigration

Officer may direct to

prevent

evasion of caminacion,

(4) The captain of the aircraft shall produce-

(a) a passenger list arranged as for vessela;

(b) a complete list of the officers and crew of his

aircraft:

(c) the members of the crew and passengers for inspection and interrogation as directed either generally or specifically by the Immigration Officer.

8.

The Immigration Officer may give such instructions as may be necessary to ensure that no passenger or member of a crew evades examination either of lús person or his effecta.

Interrogation

9. (1) Any person who arrives in the Colony or who is about of travellers, to leave the Colony by sea, air or land, shall fully and truthfully auswer all questions and inquiries put to him by the Immigration Officer, notwithstanding that the answers to any such question may tend to render such person liable to any restriction whatsoever or tend to incriminate him, and shall disclose and produce to any such officer on demand all doenments in the possession of such person tending directly or indirectly to establish his identity, nationality, occupation, or bearing on any of the restrictions in section 11 or on any absolute or conditional liability on his part to any military, naval or air force service under any State whatsoever.

(2) All such answers and ducuments 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 any such answer inadmissible in any other proceedings in which they would otherwise be admissible.

Places of

10. Any person who arrives in the Colony or who is about examination, to leave the Colony by sea, air or land, shall, if so directed by the Immigration Officer, proceed, at or before such time as is directed by such officer, to such place or places as such officer directs for further examination of his case and shall remain at such place until permitted to leave by the Immigration Officer.

Undesirable

11. (1) If, during the examination of persons arriving in the immigranu. Colony, or after such inquiry as may be necessary, it is found

that any immigrant-

(a) is diseased, maimed, blind, idiot, lunatic or decrepit not having the means of subsistence and may be hindered by his state from earning a livelihood; or

(3) is unable to show that he has in his possession the means of decently supporting himself and his dependents, if any, until he obtains a livelihood; or

(e) is a person likely to become a vagrant, beggar

or a charge upon any public or private charitable institution; or (d) is a person auffering from a contagious disease which is loathsome or dangerous; or

(e) being a person required to be in possession of valid travel documente is not in possession of such documenta or is in possession of forged or altered travel documents or travel documents which do not fully comply with any enactment in force;

or

(f) has been removed from any country or state by the Government authorities of any such country or state on repatriation for any reason whatever; or

(g) is suspected of being likely to promote sedition or to cause a disturbance of the public tranquillity; or

(2) is unable to show that he bas definite employ- ment awaiting him or that he has a reasonable prospect of obtaining such employment; or

(4) is a prostitute, a person living on the earnings of prostitution or a person of known immoral character; or

() is not in possession of such certificates as may he necessary under the Quarantine Regulations in force; or

(*) is prohibited from entering the Colony under any other enactment for the time being in force;

the Immigration Officer may prohibit auch person from landing in the Colony and may in his discretion detain him until an opportunity arises to return him to his place of embarkation or to the country of his birth or citizenship,

(2) If any such immigrant refuses to answer Any questions put to him under this section or gives unsatisfactory answers, the Immigration Officer may prohibit him from landing and may in his discretion detain him pending an opportunity to return him to his place of embarkation or to the country of his birth or citizenship.

(3) If as a result of the exercise of the powera conferred by the preceding sub-sections-

(4) an immigrant is prohibited from landing from u vessel, the master shall if so required by the Immigration Officer remove him from the Colony by the same vessel or aircraft; and (b) an immigrant who has been detained in the Colony has not been removed therefrom in accordance with the preceding paragraph the master, agent and consignes of the vessel or aircraft shall whether or not any requirement has been made under the preceding paragraph be liable to pay to the Government all costs incurred by the Colony for the maintenance of and removal from the Colony of such passenger.

(4) The master of a vessel or the captain of an aircraft shall give to the Immigration Officer any information relating to any person on board the vessel or aircraft suspected of belonging to any of the classes mentioned in sub-section (1) as is reasonably required for the purposes of this Ordinance, and shall answer to the best of his knowledge and belief all such questions touching auch persons as are put to him.