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Persons inspected and inter- rogated to
answer
truthfully and fully certain inquiries.
Classes of
may ba
prevented
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3. (1) Every person produced for inspection and interrogation under section 2 (4), and every person liable to be so produced who has disembarked without the permission of the authorised police officer while the "S" flag and code pennant remain hoisted, shall truthfully and fully answer all questions put to him by any such authorised police officer, with the object of determining whether he belongs to any of the classes of person referred to in section 4 (1), notwith- standing that the answer to any such question may tend to render him liable to any restriction whatsoever or may tend to incriminate him.
(2) Any answer to any such question shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings under this Ordinance against the person making such answer: Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as rendering any such answer inadmissible in any other proceedings in which it would other- wise be admissible.
(3) If any such person refuses to answer any such question put to him or if his answers are unsatisfactory, the authorised police officer may refuse him permission to land or prevent him from landing or may take him into police custody and detain him until an opportunity arises of returning him to his port of embarkation or to the country of his birth or citizenship.
4. (1) If it is found by any such authorised police persons who officer that any person produced for inspection and inter- rogation under section 2 (4), or any person liable to be so produced who has disembarked without the permission of the authorised police officer while the "S" flag and code pennant remain hoisted--
from
landing or expelled.
(a) is diseased, maimed, blind, idiot, lunatic or decrepit. and without the means of subsistence and may be hindered by his state from earning a livelihood;
(b) cannot show that he has in his possession, or that he is physically able to earn, the means of decently supporting himself and his dependents if any;
(c) is a professional beggar or vagrant or a person likely to become a charge upon the public or upon any public charitable institution;
(d) is a person suffering from a contagious disease which is loathsome or dangerous;
(e) being a person for whom a passport is necessary. is not in possession of a valid passport, or is in possession of a forged or altered passport or of a passport which does not comply with any regulation in force relating to passports;
(f) has been deported, banished or expelled from any country or state or lias been shipped by the Government authorities of any country or state with a view to his being repatriated;
(g) is suspected of being likely to promote sedition or to cause a disturbance of public tranquillity;
(h) cannot show that he has definite employment awaiting him, or that he has a reasonable prospect of obtaining employment; or
(i) is a prostitute or a person living on the earnings of prostitution,
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the authorised police officer may refuse such person permission to land or may prevent him from landing or may take him into police custody and detain him until an opportunity arises of returning him to his port of embarkation or to the country of his birth or citizenship.
(2) The master of the ship shall give to the authorised police officer any information relating to any person on board his ship suspected of belonging to any of the classes of persons mentioned in sub-section (1) as is reasonably required for the purposes of this Ordinance, and shall answer to the best of his knowledge all such questions touching such person as are put to him.
5. If the master of the ship is dissatisfied with the action Provision taken by the authorised police officer under section 3 (8) or
for appeal by master if section 4 (1), the matter may be referred by the master to the dissatisfied Inspector General of Police. or, in the case of persons with a
with action mentioned in paragraphs (e) or (d) of section 4 (1), to the Port authorised Health Officer, who shall decide the matter.
police officer.
agents and
cost of
6. In cases where any person is prevented from landing Master, or detained under section 3 (3) or section 4 (1) the master owners, of the ship shall provide him with a free passage to the consignees port of his embarkation, and if the ship has left the liable for Colony without such person being on board the master, maintenance owner, agent, charterer and consignee of the ship shall be and removal
of prohibited liable to pay to the Government of the Colony all costs incurred immigrant. by the Colony for the maintenance and removal of such person to the port of his embarkation,
PART II.
Passports and Travel Documents.
7. The provisions of this Part of this Ordinance shall persons
not apply to→→→
(a) persons of or under the age of fifteen years; (b) persons of Chinese race;
(c) persons who pass through the waters of the Colony without landing in the Colony; and
(d) persons employed in any capacity in the service of any ship, who arrive in the Colony and leave in the same ship on her next departure.
exempted from provisions
of Part II.
8. No person to whom this Part of this Ordinance applies Necessity shall enter the Colony unless he has in his possession-
(a) a valid passport; or
(b) some other valid travel document, establishing his nationality and identity and authorising 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 a document in respect to the person in question,
for valid passport
or travel document.
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