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arriving or leaving to answer all enquiries.
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duties of masters of ships.
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6.-(1.) The master of every ship which arrives in the Colony shall hoist the Police call flag ("S" in the Inter- national Code of Signals) whenever ordered to do so by any examination officer or police officer, and whenever hailed by any police officer, and shall keep the said flag flying until authorised by a police officer to take it down.
(2.) Except with the permission of a police officer no person shall leave any ship which is flying the Police onli flag.
(3.) Except with the permission of a police officer Do ahip which is flying the Police call flag shall be taken alongsido any pier or wharf or other vessel, nor shall any other vessel be taken alongside such ship.
(4.) The provisions of this section shall apply notwith- standing any permission given before such ship is ordered to hoist the Police call flag or is hailed by a police officer as the case may be.
7-(1) Every person who arrives in the Colony, or who is about to leave the Colony, shall truthfully and fully answer all questions and enquiries put to him by any police officer or examination officer, notwithstanding that the answer to any such question may tend to remler such person liable to any restriction whatsoever or may tend to incriminate him, and shall disclose and produce to any police officer or examination officer on demand all documents in the possession of such person tending directly or indirectly to establish his identity, nationality or occupation, or any absolute or conditional liability on his part to any military or naval service under any State whatsoever.
(2.) This section shall extend to any enquiry made of any person who is suspected of having arrived in the Colony since the fourth day of August, 1914, or who shall hereafter so arrive, or who shall hereafter be suspected of being about to leave the Colony.
(8.) Any Baswer to any such question or enquiry shall beaulmissible in evidence in any proceedings under this Ordinance against the person making such answer: pro- vided that nothing in this section shall be construed as reulering any such auswer inadmissible in any other pro- ecedings in which it would otherwise be admissible.
8. Every person who arrives in the Colony, or who is about to leave the Colony shall, if so directed by any police officer, proceed, at or before such time as may be directed by such police officer, to such place or places as such police officer may direct, for further enquiry into his
case.
9. The master of every ship which arrives in the Colony, or which is about to leave the Colony, shall when- ever required to do so by any police officer or examination officer :-
(4.) Exhibit to such officer a complete list of the
crew :
(b.) Furnish the said officer with a complete list of
the passengers:
(c.) Produce lo anch officer for inspection and inter- rogation all the passengers and all the members
of the crew.
10.—(1.) No person shall without the permission of the Governor leave or attempt to leave the Colony without a pass issued by or under the authority of the Captain Superintendent of Police.
(2.) This section shall apply only to the persons referred to in the first schedule bereto : provided that the Governor- in-Council shall have power to amend the said schedule in any way whatsoever.
(3.) The granting of any such permission and the issuing of any such pass shall be in the absolute discretion of the Governor and Captain Superintendent of Police respectively.
11-(1) No ship shall leave the Colony until it has been examined by a police officer.
(2.) Except with the permission of a police officer or an examination officer no person shall, after the police examination has been begun, board any ship which is about to leave the Colony.
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(3.) Except with the permission of a police officer or an examination officer no thing shall, after the police examination has been begun, be put on board any ship which is about to leave the Colony.
12. The master of every ship which arrives in the Masters of Colony or which is about to leave the Colony shall report ships to
repors con. forthwith to a police officer or examination officer avery traventions. case in which he has any reason to believe that an offence against this Ordinance has been or is about to be committed.
13. (1.) Whenever the Governor shall, under the powers Powers with conferred on bim by sub-clause 3 of clause III of the Order regarl to of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria in Council made on the Pos
ordered to twenty sixth day of October, 1896, order any person to quit quil the the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor by warrant Colony. under his hand to order that such person be arrested and kept in custody until bis departure from the Colony,
(2.) Every person ordered to quit the Colony shall leave the Colony on such date and by snel route or by such ship, train, or other conveyance, as may be directed by the Governor, and no person so ordered to quit the Colony shall leave the Colony except by such route or by such ship, train, or other conveyance,
(3.) Any warrant under this section may be in the form
in the schedule hereto.
14. (.) It shall be the duty of the keeper of every hotel, Registration inn, boarding-bonse, and lodging-house, and of the secretary of visitors at of every club, to ascertain and outer in a register kept for hotels. the purpose the names and nationality of all persons over the age of fourteen years staying at the hotel, inn, board- ing-house, lodging-hotse, or club, to whom section 10 of this Ordinance may for the time being apply, together with the dates of their arrival and departure, their destinations on departure, and such other particulars as may be prescribed by the Captain Superintendent of Police, and if the keeper of an hotel, iun, boarding house, or lodging-house, or the secretary of a club, fails to do so, or if he makes any entry in any such register which he knows or could by the exercise of reasonable diligence have ascertained to be false, he shall be deemed to be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(2.) The keeper of every botel, ion, boarding-house, or lodging-house, and the secretary of every club, shall also mako to the Captain Superintendent of Police such returns as to the particulars aforesaid, at such times or intervals, and in such form as the Captain Superintendent of Police may direct, and if such keeper or secretary fails to do so, or makes any false return, he shall be deemed to be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(3.) It shall be the duty of every person who stays at na hotel, ian, boarding-house, lodging-house, or club, to furnish to the keeper or secretary and sign a statement containing such information as such keeper or secretary may require for the purpose of compiling such register as aforesaid, and if any person fails to do so, or gives any false information, he shall be deemed to be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(4.) Every register kept under this section shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to inspection by any officer of police, or by any other person authorised by the Captain Superintendent of Police."
(5.) For the purposes of this section the expression "keeper of a lodging-house" shall include any person who for reward receives and other person to lodge with him or in his house, and where any hotel, inn, bourding-house, or lodging-house, is under the management of a manager the expression "keeper" shall in relation thereto include stel
manager.
15.-(1.) It shall be lawful for any police officer Powers of authorised by the Captain Superintendent of Police in detention, writing in that behalf, either generally or for a particular arrest, occasion :-
scaroli,
seizure and (4.) To detain for further onquiries during a period removal.
not excealing four days any person in whose ense such police officer may have reason to believe that further ouquiry is necessary:
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