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Certificates

12. (1) The Immigration Officer may issue Entry Entry Permits, Frontier Passes and Certificates of Residence (in Permits & such forms and on payment of the fees specified in the of Schedule or of such other fees as the Governor in Council Residence. may prescribe) to such persons as he may deem to be entitled Schedule. thereto.

(2) The Immigration Officer shall not, however, unless authorized thereto by the Governor in Council or the Court under section 19 or by regulation or exemption by the Governor in Council under section 20, issue such permits, passes or certificates to any person who-

(a) is diseased, maimed, blind, idiot, lunatic or decrepit, and without the means of subsistence and may be hindered by his state from earning a livelihood;

(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 ast he may have concerning them.

may be

disembark.

13.-(1) The Immigration Officer may by order, notice Conditions or otherwise impose such conditions either general or special attached to as he may deem fit to attach to any permission granted to a permission person described in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 9 to land to land cr 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.

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