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Immigration

Officer may direct to prevent evasion of examination.

Interrogation of travellers.

Places of examination.

Undesirable

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(4) The captain of the aircraft shall produce—

(a) a passenger list arranged as for vessels; (b) a complete list of the officers and crew of his

aircraft;

(c) the members of the crew and passengers for inspection and interrogation as directed either generally or specifically by the Immigration Officer.

8. The Immigration Officer may give such instructions as may be necessary to ensure that no passenger or member of a crew evades examination either of his person or his effects.

9. (1) Any person who arrives in the Colony or who is about to leave the Colony by sea, air or land, shall fully and truthfully answer all questions and inquiries put to him by the Immigration Officer, notwithstanding that the answers to any such question may tend to render such person liable to any restriction whatsoever or tend to incriminate him, and shall disclose and produce to any such officer on demand all documents in the possession of such person tending directly or indirectly to establish his identity, nationality, occupation, or bearing on any of the restrictions in section 11 or on any absolute or conditional liability on his part to any military, naval or air force service under any State whatsoever.

(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 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

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