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No. 3.]
REGISTRATION OF PERSONS.
[A.D. 1934.
Aliens may be required to furnish certain particulars,
etc.
Schedule,
(3) In any case of doubt a person shall be deemed to be an alien unless and until he produces a certificate, passport or other evidence, to the satisfaction of the Inspector General of Police or of a Magistrate, to the effect that he is a natural born or naturalized British Subject.
(4) The Inspector General of Police may in his absolute discretion exempt in writing any person to whom this section applies from any or all of the requirements of this section. Any such exemption may be issued subject to such terms and conditions as the Inspector General of Police may see fit to impose.
(5) This section shall not apply to :—
(a) Consular Officers of foreign states and the members of their families;
(b) The personnel of any ship which is in the waters of the Colony and passengers residing thereon;
(c) Persons not exceeding 16 years of age.
3. (1) Every alien, other than an alien of Chinese race or an alien exempted from liability to report under section 2 (4) or by section 2 (5), on being required to do so by any police officer either verbally or in writing, shall make a correct return of the information and particulars specified in the Schedule and shall, for such purpose, if so required by any police officer, attend forthwith or as directed at Police Headquarters. He shall also either supply two sufficient photographs of himself or allow himself to be photographed.
(2) He shall also truthfully and fully answer all questions and inquiries put to him by any police officer with a view to checking the correctness of the return.
(3) Any answer to any such question or inquiry shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings under this Ordinance: Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be construed as rendering any such answer inadmissible in any other proceedings in which it would otherwise be admissible.
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(4) He shall also disclose and produce to any police officer on demand all documents in his possession tending directly or indirectly to establish his identity, nationality and occupation.
or
of visitors
4. (1) It shall be the duty of the keeper of every hotel, Registration inn, boarding-house, and lodging-house, and of the secretary at hotels, of every club, to ascertain and enter in a register kept for the etc. purpose the names and nationality of all persons except persons of Chinese race staying at the hotel, inn, board- ing-house, lodging-house club, together with the dates of their arrival and departure, their destinations on departure and such other particulars as may be prescribed by the Inspector General of Police, and if the keeper of an hotel, inn, 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 guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(2) The keeper of every hotel, inn, boarding-house or lodging-house, and the secretary of every club," shall also make to the Inspector General of Police such return as to the particulars aforesaid, at such times or intervals, and in such form as the Inspector General of Police may direct, and every such keeper or secretary who fails to do so, or makes any false return, shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(3) It shall be the duty of every person except a person of Chinese race who stays at an hotel, inn, 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 every person who fails to do so, or gives any false information, shall 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 Inspector General of Police.
(5) For the purposes of this section, "keeper of a lodging-house" includes any person who for reward receives other person to lodge with him or in his house; and where
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