13. Where a deportation order is made in the case of any alien, the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, apply any money or property of the alien in payment of the whole or any part of the expenses of or incidental to the voyage from the United Kingdom and the maintenance until departure of the alien and his dependents (if any).

PART III.-General.

14. The Secretary of State may direct that any person or class of persons shall be exempt either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may impose from all or any of the provisions of this Order.

15.-(1.) Every person (other than a person under the age of 16 years or an alien to whose landing Part I of this Order does not apply) landing in the United Kingdom shall be in possession of a passport furnished with a photograph and duly issued not more than five years before the date of his arrival, or some other document establishing his nationality and identity to the satisfaction of an immigration officer.

(2.) Every person landing or embarking in the United Kingdom shall furnish to an immigration officer such information in such manner as may be prescribed.

(3.) This article shall not apply to any person coming from or embarking for a place within the United Kingdom or the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

16.-(1.) Immigration officers for the purposes of this Order shall be appointed by a Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State may arrange with the Commissioners of Customs and Excise for the employment of officers of Customs and Excise as officers under this Order.

(2.) Medical Inspectors for the purposes of this Order may be appointed by the Minister of Health with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, and shall in the exercise of their powers under this Order act under instructions issued by the Minister of Health with the concurrence of the Secretary of State.

(3.) Subject to any such instructions, officers and inspectors appointed under this Order shall have power to enter or board any vessel, and to detain and examine any person arriving at or leaving any port in the United Kingdom who is reasonably supposed to be an alien, and to require the production of any documents by such person, and shall have such other powers and duties as are conferred upon them by or under this Order or as may be prescribed for giving effect to this Order.

17. (1.) The Secretary of State may make regulations

for prescribing anything which is by this Order to be prescribed.

(2.) Any order made, directions or instructions given, or conditions imposed by the Secretary of State or by any immigration officer or other person under this Order may be revoked or varied either wholly or in part by any subsequent order, direction, instruction, or condition.

18.-(1.) If any person acts in contravention of, or fails to comply with, any provisions of this Order, or any order or rules made or conditions imposed or directions given thereunder, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Order.

(2.) If any person aids or abets any person in any contravention of this Order, or knowingly harbours any person whom he knows or has reasonable grounds for believing to have acted in contravention of this Order, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Order.

(3.) Where a person lands in contravention of this Order, the master of the ship from which he lands shall, unless he proves the contrary, be deemed to have aided and abetted the offence.

(4.) Any person shall be guilty of an offence against this Order if, in reply or in relation to any immigration officer, inspector, registration officer, or other person lawfully acting in the execution of the provisions of this Order, he—

(a.) Refuses to answer any question reasonably put to him or to produce any document in his possession; or

(b.) Makes or causes to be made any false return, false statement, or false representation; or

(c.) Alters any certificate or copy of a certificate or any entry made in pursuance of this Order; or

(d.) Obstructs or impedes that person in the exercise of his powers or duties under this Order; or

(e.) Without lawful authority uses or has in his possession any forged, altered, or irregular certificate, passport, or other document or any passport or document on which any visa or endorsement has been altered or forged.

(5.) If any person acts in contravention of or fails to comply with any provision of this Order, he is liable on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts to a fine not exceeding 1001. or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding six months, and the Court before which he is convicted may either in addition to or in lieu of any such punishment require such person to enter into recognisances with or without sureties to comply with the provisions of this Order or such provisions as the Court may direct.

(6.) If any person fails to comply with an order of the

Court requiring him to enter into recognisances, the Court, or any Court of Summary Jurisdiction sitting for the same place, may order him to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months.

(7.) Sections 684, 685 and 686 of The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 * (which relate to the jurisdiction of Courts and Justices), shall apply with respect to jurisdiction under this Order as they apply with respect to jurisdiction under that Act, and Section 693 of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894" (which relates to the levying of sums ordered to be paid by distress on a ship), shall apply with respect to any fines or other sums of money to be paid under this Order by the master of a ship as it applies with respect to fines and other sums of money to be paid under that Act.

(8.) Proceedings for an offence under this Order, which consists of making or of causing to be made any false statement, false representation, false return, or false information, or of furnishing or of causing to be furnished any false particulars, may be instituted at any time within two months after the statement, representation, return, information, or particulars, as the case may be, was or were discovered to be false.

(9.) For the purpose of the trial of a person for any offence under this Order, the offence shall be deemed to have been committed either at the place in which the same actually was committed or at any place in which the offender may be.

(10.) Where any offence under this Order consists of failure to comply with any of the provisions of this Order requiring any particulars to be furnished, or any report or return to be made, or any notice to be given, the offence shall, for the purposes of this Order, be deemed to have continued so long as such failure continues, whether or not any time is specified at or within which the particulars, report, return or statement are to be furnished, made, or given.

19. Any person who acts in contravention of this Order, or is reasonably suspected of having so acted or being about so to act, may be taken into custody without warrant by an immigration officer or by any constable.

20. (1.) The Interpretation Act, 1889," shall apply for the purpose of the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies for the purpose of the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

(2.) In this Order-

The expression former enemy alien" means an alien who is a subject or citizen of the German Empire or any * Vol. LXXXVI, page 633.

component State thereof, or of Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria or Turkey, or who, having at any time been such subject or citizen, has not changed his allegiance as a result of the recognition of new States or territorial re-arrangements, or been naturalised in any other foreign State or in any British Possession in accordance with the laws thereof, and when actually resident therein, and does not retain according to the law of his State of origin the nationality of that State;

The expression "police district" means any district for which there is a separate police force; and the expression "chief officer of police means the chief constable, or head constable, or other officer, by whatever name called, having the chief command of the police force of the district;

The expression "keeper" where used in relation to premises where accommodation is provided for reward includes any person who for reward receives any other person to lodge in the premises, either on his own behalf or as manager or otherwise on behalf of any other person;

The expression "residence" means ordinary dwellingplace, and where an alien has more than one dwelling-place, each of such dwelling-places; and the expression "resident shall have a corresponding meaning;

The expression prescribed" means prescribed by the Secretary of State, or by rules made by the Secretary of State;

The expression "port" includes any place where a person lands in or embarks from the United Kingdom;

The expression "land" shall include arrival or entry by any form of conveyance, and references to landing shall, unless the context otherwise implies, be deemed to include references to attempting to land.

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The expression embark" shall include departure by any form of conveyance;

The expression seaman means an officer or member of a crew of a ship;

The expression member of a crew member of a crew" means any person employed in the working or service of a ship;

The expression" passenger" means any person travelling or seeking to travel on board a ship who is not a seaman; The expression ship" includes aircraft, and the expression master of a ship includes the pilot of an

aircraft.

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21. For the purposes of this Order

(1.) Where an alien acquired a nationality at birth he shall be deemed to retain that nationality unless he has subsequently acquired by naturalisation or otherwise some. other nationality and is still recognised by the sovereign or State whose nationality he has acquired as entitled to protection;

(2.) Where an alien is recognised as a national by the law of more than one foreign State or where for any reason it is uncertain what nationality (if any) is to be ascribed to an alien, that alien may at the discretion of the Secretary of State either be treated as the national of the State with which he is in the opinion of the Secretary of State most closely connected for the time being in interest or sympathy or as being of uncertain nationality or of no nationality;

(3.) Where any expulsion order under "The Aliens Act, 1905," or any deportation order under the principal Act is in force against any person, that person shall, unless the Secretary of State otherwise directs, be deemed to retain his nationality as at the date of the Order notwithstanding any intervening naturalisation, marriage or any other event.

22.-(1.) Nothing in this Order shall apply to any duly accredited head of a foreign diplomatic mission or any member of his household or of his official staff.

(2.) Unless the Secretary of State otherwise directs, either generally or in any particular case, nothing in this Order or regulations made thereunder shall apply to any alien who for the time being is in receipt of full pay as a member of His Majesty's naval, military, or air forces, or to the wife or child under the age of 21 years of any such alien.

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23. (1.) In the application of this Order to ScotlandThe expression summary conviction" means summary conviction in the Sheriff Court, and Sub-Section (6) of Article 18 of this Order shall be read as if the words' or any Court of Summary Jurisdiction sitting for the same place were omitted therefrom;

The expressions "enter into recognisances" and "enter into recognisances with or without sureties mean "find caution and the expression solicitor " means "law agent within the meaning of The Law Agents (Scotland) Act, 1873'''; and

A reference to the Scottish Board of Health shall be substituted for any reference to the Minister of Health, and a reference to Section 16 of "The Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act, 1908," shall be substituted for the reference to Section 23* of "The Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879.” (2.) In the application of this Order to Ireland

The expression "police district" means the police district of Dublin metropolis and any county or other area for which a county inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary or officer having the rank of such county inspector is appointed; and the expression "chief officer of police

* Altered to Section 9, see the Order in Council of December 3, 1920,

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