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Sect. 8. position to obtain the means of decently supporting (z) himself and Undesirable his dependants, if any ; or (b) Who is a lunatic or an idiot or owing to any disease (a) or Immigrant, infirmit}' appears likely to become a charge upon the rates, or otherwise a detriment to the public or (c) Who has been sentenced in a foreign country with which there is an extradition treaty, for a crime, not being an offence of a political character, which is as respects that country an extradition crime within the meaning of the Extradition Act, 1870(6) or,



Against whom an expulsion order under the Aliens Act, 1905 (c), has been made. (d)

Sect.

Transmigrant

9.

670. A transmigrant is an alien passenger other than a first-class Transpassenger, who holds a prepaid through ticket to some destination '^ig^^'^^outside the United Kingdom and in respect of whom security has been given that he will proceed to a place outside the United

Kingdom

(t?).

Sect. 10.

Passenger.

671. A passenger is a person carried on a ship other than the master and persons employed in the working or service of the ship

(e).

Sect. 11.

Steerage Passenger.

A steerage passenger is any passenger except such persons be declared by the Secretary of State, by order made either generally or as regards any special ships or ports, to be cabin passengers (/). 672.

as

Passenger,

may

Sect. 12.

steerage passenger,

Cabin Passenger.

673. A cabin passenger, as defined by the Secretary of State, is a Cabin passenger who is entitled to use the cabin, state room or saloons passenger, where the accommodation is superior to that provided in any other part of the ship devoted to the carrying of passengers (g). (z) The fact that he has a definite trade, can speak English etc., must be taken into consideration (Memo, on Aliens Act, 1905, s. 36). (a) Medical unfitness is left to the medical inspector; see Eules under the Aliens Act (December 19, 1905), r. 2. and see title Exteadition. (b) 33 & 34 Yict. c. 52 (c) See p. 323, post. (d) Memo, on Aliens Act, 1905, s. 9. (e) Aliens Act, 1905 (5 Edw._ 7, c. 13), s. 8 (3). (/) Ibid., and Memo, on Aliens Act, 1905, s. 5. The result of the decision of the Secretary of State as to cabin passengers is that where there is more than one class of accommodation on board a ship, all alien passengers except first-class passengers are to be reckoned as alien steerage passengers, and where there is only one class of accommodation on board, all the alien passengers are to be so

reckoned. (g)

Ibid.

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