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 —— Aliens.

804

Sect.

—

Sect.

4.

Alien

Enemy.

An

665.

alien

enemy

is

Alien Enemy,

4.

one whose sovereign or state

with the sovereign of England

is at

war

(r).

Alien enemy.

Sect. ^.—Immigrant. Immigrant.

666. An immigrant for the purposes of the Aliens Act, 1905 (s), an alien steerage passenger who is to be landed in the United Kingdom but the term does not include (a) any passenger who shows to the satisfaction of the immigration officer or board concerned with the case that he desires to land in the United Kingdom only for the purpose of proceeding within a reasonable time to some destination out of the United Kingdom (b) any passenger holding a prepaid through ticket to some such destination, if the master or owner of the ship by which he is brought to the United Kingdom, or by which he is to be taken away from the United Kingdom, gives security to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State that, except for the purposes of transit or under other circumstances approved by the Secretary of State, he will not remain in the United Kingdom, or, having been rejected in another country, re-enter the United Kingdom, and that he will be properly maintained and controlled during his transit. is

—





Sect. Immigrant ship.

An immigrant

667.

6.

ship

Immigrant Ship, is

a ship which brings to the United

alien steerage passengers who are to be landed in the United Kingdom, whether at the same or different ports, or such number of those passengers as may be for the time

Kingdom more than twenty

being fixed by order of the Secretary of State Sect. Immigration port.

Immigration Port.

668. An immigration port is a port at which the Secretary of State has appointed immigration officers and medical inspectors for carrying the Aliens Act, 1905, into effect (u). Sect. 8.

Undesirable immigrant.

7.

(i).

669.

An

Who

(a)

— Undesirable

Immigrant.

undesirable immigrant (x) is an immigrant cannot show that he has in his possession (y) or

is

in a

Mod. Eep. 150. This and the following definitions are contained in the Aliens Act, 1905 (5 Edw. 7, c, 13), and the Memorandum on the Aliens Act, 1905, issued by the Home Office (February, 1906); they apply only to the provisions of the Act and the memorandum. By an order made by the Home Secretary, dated Decem{t) Ihid., s. 8 (2). ber 19, 1905, the number was fixed at twelve, but by an amended order issued by the Secretary of State, and dated March 9, 1906, the number twenty was reverted to. (u) Aliens Act, 1905 (5 Edw. 7, c. 13), s. 6 (1), and Memo, on Aliens Act, 1905, see also note (w) p. 322, j)Ost. s. 7 (x) Aliens Act, 1905 (5 Edw. 7, c. 13), s. 1 (3). (y) The test at present is, whether he is possessed of £5 and £2 for each dependant (Memo, on Aliens Act, 1905, s. 35). (r)

Sylvester's Case (1702), Y

(s)

5



Edw.

7, c. 13, s. 8(1).