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Immigrant
hip.
Non-
Immigrant
ships.
Cabin
passengers.
Explanatory Notes.
Section 8 (2) of the Act provides that the expression " immigrant ship " means " a
ship which brings to the United Kingdom more than 20 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 " ; and in this return
" immigrant ship " means a ship which brings to be landed in the United Kingdom more
than 20 alien steerage passengers.
For the purposes of the Act all alien passengers, except first class or "cabin"
passengers, are " steerage passengers."
Ships bringing to be landed not more than 20 alien steerage passengers are
described as "non-immigrant ships."
By an Order, dated December 19th, 1905. and made under Section 8 (3) of the
Act, the Secretary of State declared " all such passengers as are entitled to use the
cabins, state rooms, or saloons, where the accommodation is superior to that provided in
any other part of the ship devoted to the carrying of passengers, to be cabin passengers
for the purposes of the Act."
Under Section 1 (4) the Secretary of State has power, in certain circumstances and
subject to such conditions as he thinks fit to impose, to exempt immigrant ships from
the provisions of that Section. The Secretary of State has in a number of instances
granted such exemptions conditioned so as to relieve the second-class passengers from
inspection, on the owners of the ships giving security by bond that they will not land,
from amongst those passengers, undesirable immigrants.
This expression means alien passengers (other than first-class or cabin passengers)
who have in their possession on arrival prepaid through tickets, and in respect of whom
security has been given under Section 8 (1) (b) of the Act, that they will proceed to
places outside the United Kingdom. Alien passengers who come within this category
are not regarded as immigrants under the Act.
Proceeding to Under this heading are placed those alien passengers who come within the
ontside the united provisions of Section 8 (1) (a) of the Act, to the effect that " any passenger who shows
Kingdom. to the satisfaction of the immigration officer or board concerned with the case that he
desires to land in the United Kingdom only for the purpose of proceeding within a
reasonable time to some destination out of the United Kingdom."
Exempted
second-class
passengers.
Transmigrants.