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(4) Any person who fails to comply with any condition imposed under sub-section (1) may be dealt with in the same manner as a person who fails to furnish security may be dealt with under sub-section (3) and the Immigration Officer may also, in his discretion, forfeit any security taken from such person under sub-section (2).

(5) The Immigration Officer may at any time vary or remove wholly or in part any of the conditions imposed under sub-section (Ï).

on refusal

to land or

14.--(1) Whenever under any provision of this Ordin- Procedure ance any person has been refused permission to land or to grant disembark, or whenever any person has landed or dis- permission embarked in the Colony in contravention of any provision disembark, of this Ordinance, the master of the vessel, if so ordered etc. by the Immigration Officer shall when necessary, re-embark such person and shall remove such person from the Colony in his vessel. If such vessel shall have left the Colony before such person could be re-embarked thereon, or in any other case with the consent of the Immigration Officer, such person may be detained at the depôt or other suitable place of detention pending an opportunity of remov- ing him from the Colony and all or any of the following persons, that is to say, the master, owner, agent, charterer and consignee of the vessel shall be liable to pay to the Immigration Officer all costs and charges incurred in respect of such maintenance and removal.

(2) If any person to whom permission to land or dis- embark has been refused shall find security to the satisfaction of the Immigration Officer that he will leave the Colony in a particular vessel approved by the Immigration Officer, such person may be released from detention pending his departure from the Colony in the said vessel. If such person fails to depart by the approved vessel he shall be liable to the penal- ties provided by section 22.

master.

15. Every master may use and employ, with such Powers of assistance as he may require, all reasonable means, including force and restraint if he deems it necessary, to secure the continued presence on board of any person who has not been permitted to land or disembark.

16.-(1) No seaman shall land or disembark from any vessel except with the permission of the Immigration Officer. Such permission may be subject to any condition which the Immigration Officer may think fit to impose.

(2) The Immigration Officer may take such security as he deems fit, whether by way of deposit or otherwise from the master, owner, charterer, agent or consignee of the vessel from which he has reasonable cause to suspect that any seaman is about to land contrary to, or to secure the fulfilment of any condition imposed by, sub-section (1), and may refuse to release the vessel from examination until such security is furnished.

(3) When any seaman is about to be, or is discharged or paid off in the Colony the master shall as soon as practicable notify the Immigration Officer.

(4) Any seaman so discharged or paid off may be required to attend before the Immigration Officer for inquiry, and for this purpose the Immigration Officer may by general notice or otherwise designate the class or classes of seamen or any particular seaman required to attend for such inquiry.

Special

provisions

for scamen.

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