STATUTORY RULES.
1924. No. 100.
REGULATION UNDER THE IMMIGRATION ACT 1901–1920.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby make the following Regulation under the Immigration Act 1901–1920, to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this tenth day of July, 1924.
FORSTER,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. F. PEARCE,
Minister of State for Home and Territories.
Amendment of Immigration Regulations 1913.
(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 307, as amended to this date.)
After regulation 7a of the Immigration Regulations the following heading and regulation are inserted:—
“Deportation of Persons under Ministerial Order.
“7b.—(1.) Where the Minister has made an order under the Act for the deportation of any person, and that person has been placed on board a ship for the purpose of deportation, the Collector or Sub-Collector of Customs at any port in Australia at which the ship subsequently calls may, if he is reasonably satisfied that it is desirable to remove the person for safe custody on shore while the ship remains in that port, order him to be removed accordingly.
“(2.) When the Collector or Sub-Collector, in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation, orders a person to be removed for safe custody on shore, he may authorize any officer of police or other person to detain the person in the watchhouse at any police station or may arrange for the detention of the person in such other custody as the Collector or Sub-Collector considers reasonably necessary, while the ship is in that port, and may order the person to be returned to the ship prior to her departure from the port.”.
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