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A.D. 1905.
(2) The expression " immigrant ship " in this Act means a ship which
brings to the United Kingdom more than twenty 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 being fixed
by order of the Secretary of State, either generally or as regards any special
ships or ports.
(3) The expression " passenger " in this Act includes any person carried on
the ship other than the master and persons employed in the working, or
service, of the ship, and the expression " steerage passenger" in this Act
includes all passengers except such persons as may be declared by the
Secretary of State to be cabin passengers by order made either generally or as
regards any special ships or ports.
(4) If any question arises under this Act on an appeal to an immigration
board whether any ship is an immigrant ship within the meaning of this Act,
or whether any person is an immigrant, a passenger, or a steerage passenger,
within the meaning of this Act, or whether any offence is an offence of a
political character, or whether a crime is an extradition crime, that question
shall be referred to the Secretary of State in accordance with rules made under
this Act, and the board shall act in accordance with his decision.
(5) The Secretary of State may withdraw or vary any order made by him
under this section.
Application
of Act to
Scotland and
Ireland.
9.—(1) In the application of this Act to Scotland and Ireland the words
'' be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
three months with hard labour" shall be substituted for the words "be
" deemed a rogue and vagabond within the meaning of the Vagrancy Act,
" 1824, and be liable to be dealt with accordingly as if the offence were an
" offence under section four of that Act."
27 & 28 Vict,
c. 53.
(2) Section thirty-three of the Summary Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1864,
shall be substituted as respects Scotland for section twenty-nine of the
Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879 ; and the Lord Chancellor of Ireland may,
as respects Ireland, make rules for the purposes of this Act for which rules
may be made under section twenty-nine of the Summary Jurisdiction
Act, 1879 ; and all rules so made shall be laid, as soon as may be, before
both Houses of Parliament.
Short title
and commencement,
and repeal.
This Act may be cited as the Aliens Act, 1905, and shall come
into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and six.
6 & 7 Will, 4,
c. 11.
(2) The Registration of Aliens Act, 1836, is hereby repealed.