CO129-537-3 Deportation Ordinance- 1932- Bill 8-3-1932 - 28-9-1932 — Page 18

(2) Where any such person is convicted summarily before a magistrate, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.

(3) Where any such person is convicted on indictment, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years in cases where the period of deportation or banishment exceeded fifteen years, to imprisoment for any term not exceeding three years in cases where the period of deportation or banishment did not exceed fifteen years but exceeded five years, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years in cases where the period of deportation or banishment did not exceed five years.

(4) Where the period of deportation or banishment is for life, such period shall be deemed to exceed fifteen years for the purposes of this section.

15. Every person, who without lawful authority of Fenalty for excuse knowingly harbours or conceals any person who is harbouring. prohibited from being within the Colony by a deportation order made under this Ordinance ΟΙ a banishment or. deportation order made under any repealed Ordinance, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

16. The Governor may appoint any building or portion House of of a building to be a House of Detention for the purposes Detention. of this Ordinance and any person to be Superintendent of such House, and in default of such appointments Victoria Gaol, or other the principal prison of the Colony, shall be the House of Detention and the Superintendent of Prisons shall be the Superintendent of the House of Detention.

17.-(1) In any proceedings whatsoever, a deportation Evidence. or banishment order signed by the Clerk of Councils, or a copy of such order certified by the Clerk of Councils, shall be deemed conclusive evidence that the order was duly and validly made and issued against the person named in such order and that the order was made on the date therein specified.

(2) In any proceedings whatsoever, any document which purports to be a deportation or banishment order and to be signed by the Clerk of Councils, or any document which purports to be a copy of such order and to be certified by the Clerk of Councils, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed respectively to be such an order signed by the Clerk of Councils or to be a copy of such an order certified by the Clerk of Councils.

(3) In any proceedings under this Ordinance, an indorsement on any deportation order in Form No. 9 in the Schedule Schedule, which purports to be signed by a police interpreter Form No. 9. or by any police officer, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed sufficient evidence that the said deportation order was duly explained to the person named in such order as therein stated. Also any indorsement on any detention warrant purporting to state the date of arrest of any person under the said detention warrant, and purporting to be signed by the officer who made the arrest, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed sufficient evidence that the person referred to was arrested on the date stated.

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