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(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 immigrants. 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

( munnarting himself and his dependents, if

of prostitution or a person of known

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

() 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.

any

(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 hy 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 (b) 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 to any of the classes mentioned in sub-section (1) as is reasonably required for the purposes of this Ordinance, and shall answer to the best of his knowledge and belief all such questions touching such persons as are put to him.

(5) If any person enters without the permission of the Immigration Officer he may be arrested without a warrant by any police officer and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars; upon any such conviction the master, owner and agent of a vessel or the captain, owner and agent of an aircraft by which such peran was brought to the Colony shall be liable to such fine not exceeding five thousand dollars as the magistrate may impose; and the magistrate may whether or not any such lastly mentioned fine is imposed make order directing that such person shall be returned at the expense of the agent for the vessel or aircraft to his place of embarkation or his country of Birth or citizenship as soon as possible.

(6) A copy of the lists required under section 7 shall be furnished to the Immigration Officer within forty-eight hours after such arrival or departure, as the case may be, by the master or other person in charge, owner and agent of every vessel or aircraft which arrives in the Colony or departs therefrom, and every such owner, master, person or agent who fails to furnish such list or 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 frontier as he may consider necessary to carry out the provisions

and points of this Ordinance.

of entry.