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 1901.] No. 17 of 1901 AN ACT To place certain restrictions on Immigration and to provide for the removal from the Commonwealth of prohibited Immigrants.[Assented to 23rd December 1901]

it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Immigration Restriction Act 1901.

2. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears,—

“Officer” means any officer appointed under this Act, or any Officer of Customs;

“The Minister” means the Minister for External Affairs.

3. The immigration into the Commonwealth of the persons described in any of the following paragraphs of this section (herein-after called “prohibited immigrants”) is prohibited, namely:—
 * (a) Any person who when asked to do so by an officer fails to write out at dictation and sign in the presence of the officer a passage of fifty words in length in an European language directed by the officer;

(b) any