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A.D. 1905.
ALIENS ACT, 1905.
[5 Edw. 7. Ch. 13.]
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
Regulation of Alien Immigration.
Section.
1. Power to prevent the landing of undesirable immigrants.
2. Immigration board and rules.
Expulsion of Undesirable Aliens.
3. Power of Secretary of State to make an expulsion order.
4. Expenses of return of alien, &c.
General.
5. Returns as to aliens.
6. Appointment of officers, and expenses.
7. Supplemental provisions.
8. Definitions.
9. Application of Act to Scotland and Ireland.
10. Short title and commencement, and repeal.
Chapter 13.
An Act to amend the Law with regard to Aliens. [11th August, 1905.]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:—
Power to
prevent the
landing of
undesirable
immigrants.
Regulation of Alien Immigration.
1.—(1) An immigrant shall not be landed in the United Kingdom
from an immigrant ship except at a port at which there is an immigration
officer appointed under this Act, and shall not be landed at any such port
without the leave of that officer given after an inspection of the immigrants
made by him on the ship, or elsewhere if the immigrants are conditionally