CO129-604-6 Immigration- control over entry from China 1-1-1947 - 4-1-1950 — Page 219

34

Authorised

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(5) If any person enters

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 act or default on the part of any of them or of any person employed by any of them, be liable on summary 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.

(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, landing places authorise such landing places or such points of entry on the land and points

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

of entry.

Power of

Immigration Officer or

13. (1) The Immigration Immigration authorised by him in writing in that behalf, either generally or any police officer for a particular occasion, may-

Officer.

(a) detain for four days for further inquiries any person concerning whom he has reason to believe that further inquiries should be made;

(b) arrest and bring before a magistrate any person whom he has reason to suspect of having contravened or attempted to contravene any of the provisions of this Ordinance;

(c) search the person and property and effects of any person whom it is lawful for such officer to detain or arrest or who arrives in or is about to leave the Colony: Provided that a female shall be searched by a female, and that no person shall be searched in a public place if he objects to being so searched;

(d) search any place or vessel (not being a ship of war), aircraft, train or vehicle, in which such officer has reason to suspect that there may be anything which may be evidence of any contravention or intended contravention of any of the provisions of this Ordinance, or which may belong to or be in the possession of or under the sole or partial control of any person whom it is lawful for such officer to detain or arrest;

2°