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A.D. 1905.
the embarkation of undesirable immigrants on those ships, or if security is
given to his satisfaction that undesirable immigrants will not be landed in the
United Kingdom from those ships except for the purpose of transit.
Any such order of exemption may be withdrawn at any time at the
discretion of the Secretary of State.
(5) Any immigrant who lands, and any master of a ship who allows an
immigrant to be landed, in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an
offence under this Act, but an immigrant conditionally disembarked shall not
be deemed to have landed so long as the conditions are complied with.
Immigration
board and
rules.
2.—(1) The immigration board for a port shall consist of three persons
summoned in accordance with rules made by the Secretary of State under this
Act out of a list approved by him for the port comprising fit persons having
magisterial, business, or administrative experience.
(2) A Secretary of State may make rules generally with respect to
immigration boards and their officers, and with respect to appeals to those
boards, and with respect to the conditional disembarkation of immigrants for
the purpose of inspection, appeals, or otherwise, and may by those rules
amongst other things provide for the summoning and procedure of the board,
and for the place of meeting of the board, and for the security to be given by
the master of the ship in the case of immigrants conditionally disembarked.
Rules made under this section shall provide for notice being given to masters
of immigrant ships and immigrants informing them of their right of appeal,
and also, where leave to land is withheld in the case of any immigrant by the
immigration officer, for notice being given to the immigrant and the master
of the immigrant ship of the grounds on which leave has been withheld.
Expulsion op Undesirable Aliens.
Power of
Secretary of
State to
make an
expulsion
order.
3.—(1) The Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, make an order (in
this Act referred to as an expulsion order) requiring an alien to leave the
United Kingdom within a time fixed by the order, and thereafter to remain
out of the United Kingdom—
55 & 56 Vict.
C. 55.
17 & 18 Vict,
c. 103.
2 & 3 Vict,
c. 47.
(a) if it is certified to him by any court (including a court of summary
jurisdiction) that the alien has been convicted by that court of any
felony, or misdemeanour, or other offence for which the court has
power to impose imprisonment without the option of a fine, or of
an offence under paragraph twenty-two or twenty-three of section
three hundred and eighty-one of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act,
1892, or of an offence as a prostitute under section seventy-two of
the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, or paragraph eleven
of section fifty-four of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, and that
the court recommend that an expulsion order should be made in his
case, either in addition to or in lieu of his sentence : and