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SUPPLEMENT NO. 1, JANUARY 22, 1949.

(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 Jocuments which do not fully comply with any enactment in force;

or

(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

(j) 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.

(2) If any such immigrant refuses to answer any 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 (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.

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