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Aliens.

328 Sect.

5.

Ketums

as

sex, nationality, last permanent abode in the United Kingdom, length of residence and original port of arrival.

name,

to Aliens.

Sect. Persons guilty of

6.

and

Offences

Penalties.

724. The following persons are guilty of offences under the Aliens Act, 1905 :— (1) Any immigrant who lands from an immigrant ship either at a non-immigration port or at an immigration port without the leave of the immigration officer, or who, if allowed to be conditionally embarked, fails to comply with the conditions imposed {t), (2) Any alien found in the kingdom after an expulsion order has been made against him {u). (3) Any master of an immigrant ship who allows an immigrant to be illegally landed

{v).

a ship who fails to give a passage to an alien or his (or her) dependents when required to do so by the Secretary of State {id). (5) Any master of a ship who fails to make a return or who makes a false return {x), (4)

Penalties.

Any master

of

725. Any person guilty of such an offence is, if the offence is committed by him as the master of a ship, liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ^6100 {y), and if the offence is committed by him as an immigrant or alien, is to be deemed a rogue and a vagabond within the meaning of the Vagrancy Act, 1824 {z), and be liable to be dealt with as if the offence were an offence under s. 4 of that Act {a) and any immigrant, master of a ship, or other person who for the purposes of the Act makes any false statement or false representation to an immigration officer, medical inspector, immigration board, or to the Secretary of State, and any alien who refuses to give the information required to the master of a ship for the purpose of the return (5), or who gives false information for that purpose, is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months with hard

labour

(c)

Sect.

7.

Jurisdiction.

726. Courts and justices have the same extended jurisdiction

Jurisdiction.

(t)

Aliens Act, 1905 (5 Edw.

(u) Ibid.,

'.

s.

3 (2)



and

{d)

7, c. 13), s. 1 (5).

see p. 323, ante,

(v) Ibid., s. 1 (5).

(w) Ibid., [x) Ibid.,

s. s.

4

(3).

5 (2). 5 (2).

A master making a false return is held guilty of merely (y) Ibid., s. an offence under the Act carrying a penalty of £100 but compare s. 7 (4), where it is enacted that any master making a false statement to an immigration officer or board shall be liable to imprisonment for three months with hard

labour. (z) 5 Geo. 4, c. 83. By s. 4 of that Act persons convicted as rogues and vagabonds are liable to three months' imprisonment with hard labour, and on subsequent conviction to be indicted as incorrigible rogues, and on conviction and by special order of quarter sessions to be whipped.

(a) {b) (c).

Aliens Act, 1905 See p. 326, ante. Aliens Act, 1905

{d) Ihid., s. 7 (2).

(5 (5

Edw. Edw.

7, c. 13),

s.

7 (1).

7, c. 13), ss.

5 (2), 7 (4).