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Establish- ment of depots.

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 auswer 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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contrary is proved, to have attempted to land in contravention of sub-section (1) of this section.

Transfer of arrivals to a depôt if

7. Every person who arrives in the Colony shall, if so ordered by the Immigration Officer, proceed as directed from the vessel on which he has arrived, or from the point of ordered. entry on the frontier at which he has entered, to a depôt and shall remain at such depôt until permitted to leave by the Immigration Officer.

northern frontier to

8. No person shall enter the Colony across its northern Closure of frontier, between Sha-tau-kok and the estuary of the Sham Chun River inclusive, except at such entry points as the entry, Governor may appoint by notification in the Gazette.

except at authorized places.

of entry.

9. The Immigration Officer may in his discretion refuse Conditions permission to land, or to remain after landing in the Colony or to enter or to remain after entering, beyond such period as

he may sanction, to any person who-

(a) is a through passenger; or

(b) is not in possession of either- (i) a valid passport; or

(ii) some other valid travel document, establishing his nationality and identity and authorizing him to travel to and enter the Colony, issued or endorsed, in the case of a British subject or British protected person, by a competent British official and in other cases by an official having authority to issue or endorse such document in respect of the person in question; or

(iii) a valid Entry Permit or Certificate of Residence or Frontier Pass issued under this Ordinance :

Provided also that the Immigration Officer shall not exercise the powers conferred by this section if the person is a child who appears to him to be of or under the age of fifteen years and to be accompanied by and to be a member of the family of a person whose landing or permission to remain has been sanctioned under this section:

Provided further that neither the possession of a valid passport or travel document nor any visa or endorsement thereon nor any Entry Permit or Certificate of Residence shall be deemed to imply that the holder will be permitted to land in the Colony, or, if allowed to land, that he will be permitted to stay in the Colony; nor shall it serve as any excuse for disobeying any deportation, banishment or expulsion order or any order or regulation made under the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Orders in Council, 1939 and 1940, or under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, or any Quarantine Regulation for the time being in force.

10. No passport or travel document shall be deemed to Require be valid unless-

ments for the validity of

(a) an indication, either specific or in general terms, passports which is not invalidated by any other endorsement, appears and travel thereon to the effect that the passport or travel document is documents. valid for Hong Kong;

(b) it was issued or renewed to the holder, in the case of a passport, by or on behalf of the Government of the country or state of which he is a subject or citizen, and in

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