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(6) In this section "consular officer" includes consul- 52 & 53 general, consul, vice-consul, consular agent, and any person s. 12 (20). for the time being authorized to discharge the duties of consul- general, consul or vice-consul.

etc.

3.-(1) Every alien, other than an alien of Chinese race Aliens may be required or an alien exempted from liability to report under section 2 (4)

to furnish or by section 2 (5), on being required to do so by any police certain officer either verbally or in writing, shall make a correct return particulars of the information and particulars specified in Form No. 1 in Schedule. the Schedule and shall for such purpose, if so required by any Form No. 1. police officer, attend forthwith or as directed at the Registration of Persons Office, Police Department. He shall also either supply two sufficient photographs of himself or allow himself to be photographed.

(2) He shall also truthfully and fully answer all questions and inquiries put to him by any police officer with a view to checking the correctness of the return.

(3) Any answer to any such question or inquiry shall be admissible in evidence in, any proceedings under this Ordin- ance : Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be construed as rendering any such answer inadmissible in any other proceedings in which it would otherwise be admissible.

(4) He shall also disclose and produce to any police officer on demand all documents in his possession tending directly or indirectly to establish his identity, nationality and occupation.

of visitors

4. (1) It shall be the duty of the keeper of every hotel, Registration inn, boarding-house and lodging-house, and of the secretary at hotels, of every club, to ascertain and enter in a register kept for the etc. purpose the names and nationality of all persons except persons of Chinese race staying in the hotel, inn, boarding- house, lodging-house or club, together with the dates of their arrival and departure, their destinations on departure and such other particulars as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Police, and if the keeper of an hotel, inn, boarding-house or lodging-house, or the secretary of a club, fails to do so, or if he makes any entry in any such register which he knows or could by the exercise of reasonable diligence have ascertained to be false, he shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.

(2) Where an alien, other than an alien of Chinese race, is lodging with or living as a member of the household of any other person, or is living as an inmate of any hospital, nursing home, school or other institution, it shall be the duty of that other person or of the person for the time being in charge of the institution to give within forty-eight hours of the arrival of such alien in his household or institution notice of the presence of the alien to the Commissioner of Police.

(3) The keeper of every hotel, inn, boarding-house or lodging-house, and the secretary of every club, shall also make to the Commissioner of Police such return as to the particulars set out in sub-section (1), at such times or intervals, and in such form, as the Commissioner of Police may direct, and every such keeper or secretary who fails to do so, or makes any false return, shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.