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Undesirable immigrants.

(2) All such answers and documents shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings under this Ordinance against the person making, disclosing or producing the same: Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as rendering any such answer inadmissible in any other proceedings in which they would otherwise be admissible.

10. Any person who arrives in the Colony or who is about to leave the Colony by sea, air or land, shall, if so directed by the Immigration Officer, proceed, at or before such time as is directed by such officer, to such place or places as such officer directs for further examination of his case and shall remain at such place until permitted to leave by the Immigration Officer.

11. (1) If, during the examination of persons arriving in the Colony, or after such inquiry as may be necessary, it is found that any immigrant-

(a) is diseased, maimed, blind, idiot, lunatic or decrepit not having the means of subsistence and may be hindered by his state from earning a livelihood; or

(b) is unable to show that he has in his possession the means of decently supporting himself and his dependents, if any, until he obtains a livelihood; or

(c) is a person likely to become a vagrant, beggar or a charge upon any public or private charitable institution; or (d) is a person suffering from a contagious disease which is loathsome or dangerous; or

(e) being a person required to be in possession of valid travel documents is not in possession of such documents or is in possession of forged or altered travel documents or travel documents which do not fully comply with any enactment in force;

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(f) has been removed from any country or state by the Government authorities of any such country or state on repatriation for any reason whatever; or

(g) is suspected of being likely to promote sedition or to cause a disturbance of the public tranquillity; or

(h) is unable to show that he has definite employ- ment awaiting him or that he has a reasonable prospect of obtaining such employment; or

(i) is a prostitute, a person living on the earnings of prostitution or a person of known immoral character; or

() is not in possession of such certificates as may be necessary under the Quarantine Regulations in force; or

(k) is prohibited from entering the Colony under any other enactment for the time being in force;

the Immigration Officer may prohibit such person from landing in the Colony and may in his discretion detain him until an opportunity arises to return him to his place of embarkation or to the country of his birth or citizenship.

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(2) If any such immigrant refuses to answer questions put to him under this section or gives unsatisfactory answers, the Immigration Officer may prohibit him from landing and may in his discretion detain him pending an opportunity to return him to his place of embarkation or to the country of his birth or citizenship.

(3) If as a result of the exercise of the powers conferred by the preceding sub-sections-

(a) an immigrant is prohibited from landing from a vessel, the master shall if so required by the Immigration Officer remove him from the Colony by the same vessel or aircraft; and (6) an immigrant who has been detained in the Colony has not been removed therefrom in accordance with the preceding paragraph the master, agent and consignee of the vessel or aircraft shall whether or not any requirement has been made under the preceding paragraph be liable to pay to the Government all costs incurred by the Colony for the maintenance of and removal from the Colony of such passenger.

(4) The master of a vessel or the captain of an aircraft shall give to the Immigration Officer any information relating to any person on board the vessel or aircraft suspected of belonging

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If any person enters without permission of the Immigration Officer -

(a) such person may be arrested without a warrant by any police officer and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars; and

(b) the master, owner and agent of the vessel, or aircraft by which such person was brought to the Colony shall, unless he can satisfy a magistrate that such entry was not due to any aot or default on the part of any of them or of any person employed by any of them, be liable on sumary conviction to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars; and

(c) the magistrate may, whether or not any such lastly mentioned fine is imposed, make an order directing that such person shall be returned as soon as possible at the expense of the agent for the vessel or aircraft to the place of embarkation or country of birth or country of citizenship of such person.

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who furnishes any list which he knows, or could by the exercise of reasonable diligence have ascertained, to be false, shall be guilty of an offence.

12. The Governor may, by notification in the Gazette, Authorised authorise such landing places or such points of entry on the land landing places

and points frontier as he may consider necessary to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance.

of entry.