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Conditions may be

attached to permission

to land or disembark.

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(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 dependants if any, or that he will be able to obtain such support in the Colony;

(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 await- ing him, or that he has a reasonable prospect of obtaining employment;

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

() is not in possession of such certificates as may be required under Quarantine Regulations for the time being in force; or

(k) is prohibited from entering the Colony under any enactment for the time being in force.

(3) The master of every ship having or suspecting that he has on board persons of the classes mentioned in sub-section (2) shall give to the Immigration Officer such information as he may have concerning them.

13. (1) The Immigration Officer may by order, notice or otherwise impose such conditions either general or special as he may deem fit to attach to any permission granted to a person described in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 9 to land or disembark, whether for the purpose of residence or sojourn in the Colony or for transhipment at a port in the Colony or, in the case of a through passenger, during the stay in port of the ship in which he arrived, and may at any time vary or add to such conditions as he may deem fit.

(2) The Immigration Officer may demand and take such security, not exceeding in value two hundred and fifty dollars, as he may deem fit to ensure the due fulfilment of any such condition.

(3) Any person who fails to furnish any security demanded under sub-section (2) may-

(a) be refused permission to land or disembark in the Colony and be detained on board the vessel in which he arrived; or

(b) be removed to a place of detention ashore and there detained pending an opportunity of returning him to his port of embarkation or of sending him to his destination; or

(c) if he is in a depôt be either returned to the vessel in which he arrived or detained in the depôt or other suitable place of detention pending an opportunity of removing him from the Colony.

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