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Colony to answer enquiries and to disclose certain documents,

and it provides that the answers to such enquiries shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings under the Ordinance.

Section 8 provides for cases where fuller enquiry seems

desirable.

Sections 9 and 12 impose certain duties on the masters

of ships which are entering or leaving the waters of the Colony.

Section 10 prohibits all persons to whom the section applie applie from leaving the Colony without permission. The classes of

person in question are specified in the First Schedule which

includes only those persons who were already regularly required

to obtain a pass before leaving the Colony. This schedule

may be amended by the Governor-in-Council at any time.

Section 11 deals with the examination of ships which are

about to leave the waters of the Colony.

Section 13 supplements the powers conferred by sub-clause

3 of clause III of the Order-in-Council of the 26th October,

1896.

Section 14 is taken from article 3 of the Aliens Restric-

tion (Amendment) order, 1915.

Section 15 gives certain powers of detention, arrest,

search, seizure and removal. The somewhat wide nature of the

powers conferred must find its justification in the pecular

circumstances of the time.

Section 16 provides the penalties.

Section 17 saves the rights and powers of the Crow.

Section 18 is a suspending clause inserted in order to

givetime for the preparation or transfer of the necessary

machinery.

In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency

the Governor may properly assent and in the name of Hie Hajesty

and on His behalf.

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Attorney General.

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