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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH FEBRUARY, 1898.

Disabilities of prohibited immi-

grants who are not allowed to enter.

Contract for carry- ing away prohibited immigrants.

Offence of aiding persons to contra- vene the Act.

Offence of aiding

Colony.

9. A PROHIBITED immigrant, unless allowed to enter the Colony under the fifth section of this Act, shall not be entitled to a license to carry on any trade or calling, nor be entitled to acquire a lease or any beneficial interest in land, or to vote at any Parliamentary or municipal election or to be inscribed on any roll of the persons so entitled; and any license, lease, beneficial interest, or franchise granted or acquired in contravention of this section shall be void.

10. AN officer thereto authorised by the Governor may make a contract with the master, owners, or agent of any vessel for the conveyance of any prohibited immigrant found in Western Australia to a port in or near to such immigrant's country of birth, or in or near to the place from which he set out for Western Australia; and every such immigrant, with his personal effects, may be placed by a police officer on board such vessel, and shall, in such case, if destitute, be supplied with a sufficient sum of money to enable him to live for one month according to his circumstances in life after disem- barking from such vessel.

11. EVERY person who in any way wilfully assists any prohibited immigrant to contravene the provisions of this Act shall be deemed to have contravened this Act.

12. EVERY person who wilfully assists the entry into Western Australia of any persons describe in prohibited immigrant of the class described in sub-section (f.) of the Third Section of this Act shall be deemed to have contravened this Act, and shall, upon conviction, be liable to be imprisoned with hard labour for any period not exceeding twelve months; but shall not be charged under this and under the last preceding section with the same offence.

into

Bringing idiots or insane persons the Colony.

Powers of Police

and others to prevent entry in contravention of the Act.

Appointment of

out the Act.

13. EVERY person who shall be wilfully instrumental in bringing into Western Australia

idiot or any

insane person, not being domiciled or a member of a family domiciled there, without an authority signed by the Colonial Secretary, shall be deemed to have contravened this Act, and in addition to any other penalty shall be liable for the cost of the maintenance of such idiot or insane person while in the Colony.

14. EVERY member of the police force, and every person appointed therefor under this Act may, subject to the provisions of the Fifth Section of this Act, prevent any prohibited immigrant from entering Western Australia by land or sea.

15. THE Governor may from time to time appoint, and from time to tiine suspend officers for carrying and remove officers for carrying out the provisions of this Act, and may prescribe the duties of such officers; and such officers shall carry out the instructions from time to time given by the Minister administering this Act.

Regulations.

Penalties.

Jurisdiction of Magistrates.

Saving of Act 48 Vict., No. 25.

And the Pearl Fishery.

16. THE Governor may from time to time make, repeal, and alter regulations for carrying this Act into effect, and, in relation to persons brought into Western Australia for employment in the pearl shell fishery, regulating--

The registration of such persons;

Their employment;

Their landing and the length of time and the conditions under which they

may remain on shore; and generally

For preventing their entering on any portion of the Colony beyond the limits

in this Act mentioned in that belialf;

and such regulations shall be published in the Government Gazette, and shall be laid before the Parliament within fourteen days after such publication, if the Parliament is then sitting, and if the Parliament is not then sitting, within fourteen days of its next meeting, and when so published shall have the force of law, and shall continue in force unless repealed or altered as aforesaid, or disallowed by both Houses of Parliament.

17. WHERE no higher penalty is expressly imposed, a person convicted of any contravention of this Act shall be subject to a fine not exceeding Fifty pounds, and to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, until such fine is paid, or in addition to such fine, but not in any case for a period exceeding three months.

18. TWO Justices of the Peace in petty sessions or a Resident or Police Magis- trate may adjudicate on all offences under this Act, except in cases involving pecuniary penalties exceeding One hundred pounds.

19. NOTHING in this Act contained shall affect the provisions of the Imported Labour Registry Act, 1884, or any future Act regulating the registration of imported labour; or

(Save so far as regulations under this Act extend) any person brought into Western Australia for employment in the pearl shell fishery, and kept employed under contract in such fishery, or in temporary employment on shore and ouly on that part of the coast of Western Australia situate to the Northward of the twenty-seventh parallel of South latitude and according and subject to the regulations made under this Act.