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Procedure on refusal to grant permission to land or disembark, etc.

Powers of master.

Special provisions

for seamen.

(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.

(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 (1).

14. (1) Whenever under any provision of this Ordin- ance any person has been refused permission to land or disembark, or whenever any person has landed or dis- embarked in the Colony in contravention of any provision of this Ordinance, the master of the vessel, if so ordered 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.

15. Every master may use and employ, with such 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.

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