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3.--(1) Every person produced for inspection and Persons interrogation under section 2 (4), and every person liable to inspected be so produced who has disembarked without the permission rogated to of the authorised police officer while the "S" flag and code answer

truthfully pennant remain hoisted, shall truthfully and fully answer all and fully questions put to him by any such authorised police officer, certain with the object of determining whether he belongs to any of the classes of person referred to in section 4 (1), notwith- standing that the answer to any such question may tend to render him liable to any restriction whatsoever or may tend to incriminate him.

(2) Any answer to any such question shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings under this Ordinance against the person making such answer: Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as rendering any such answer inadmissible in any other proceedings in which it would other- wise be admissible.

(3) If any such person refuses to answer

any such question put to him or if his answers are unsatisfactory, the authorised police officer may refuse him permission to land or prevent him from landing or may take him into police custody and detain him until an opportunity arises of returning him to his port of embarkation or to the country of his birth or citizenship.

inquiries.

may be

4-(1) If it is found by any such authorised police Classes of officer that any person produced for inspection and inter- person who rogation under section 2 (4), or any person liable to be so prevented produced who has disembarked without the permission of from the authorised police officer while the "S" flag and code expelled. pennant remain hoisted-

(a) is diseased, maimed, blind, idiot, lunatic or decrepit. and without the means of subsistence and may be hindered by his state from earning a livelihood:

(b) cannot show that he has in his possession, or that he is physically able to earn, the means of decently supporting himself and his dependents if any;

(c) is a professional beggar or vagrant or a person likely to become a charge upon the public or upon any public charitable institution;

(d) is a person suffering from a contagious disease which is loathsome or dangerous;

(e) being a person for whom a passport is necessary, is not in possession of a valid passport, or is in possession of a forged or altered passport or of a passport which does not comply with any regulation in force relating to passports:

(f) has been deported, banished or expelled from any country or state or has been shipped by the Government authorities of any country or state with a view to his being repatriated;

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

(h) cannot show that he has definite employment awaiting him, or that he has a reasonable prospect of obtaining employment; or

(i) is a prostitute or a person living on the earnings of prostitution.

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