Samoa Immigration Order




1674
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

(d.) If such person has been convicted of landing in Samoa in
breach of any of the provisions of this Order other than
the provisions of clause two thereof.

(2.) If any person remains in Samoa for forty-two days after
the day on which such an order, or a copy or duplicate thereof, is
served on him, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Order and
shall be liable accordingly.

  1. (1.) When the Administrator, in pursuance of the authority
    conferred on him by this Order, has ordered any person to leave
    Samoa, he may, by the same or any subsequent order, if he thinks
    such a course necessary in the public interest, and whether default
    has yet been made in obedience to the order or not, authorize the
    arrest of that person and his deportation from Samoa on a vessel
    named by the Administrator and about to leave Samoa, and there-
    upon any constable may without warrant arrest that person and place
    him on board that vessel, and detain him there until the vessel has
    left Samoa.

(2.) When any person ordered to leave Samoa has been so
arrested he may, pending his deportation from Samoa, be detained
in such custody as the Administrator may direct.

  1. No person ordered to leave Samoa as aforesaid shall at any
    time after compliance with the order, or after having been placed
    on board any vessel as aforesaid, return to or land in Samoa without
    the permission in writing of the Administrator, and every person
    who so returns or lands shall be guilty of an offence against this
    Order.

  2. Such sum as the Administrator considers reasonable may be
    paid out of the Samoan Treasury to the owner, charterer, or master
    of any vessel on account of the carriage from Samoa of any person so
    ordered to leave Samoa and placed on board that vessel under arrest,
    and if, after payment or offer of that sum, the owner, charterer, or
    master of that vessel refuses without reasonable excuse to receive or
    retain on board the person so arrested or any officer in whose custody
    he is, or connives at or is privy to the escape from the ship of any
    person so ordered to leave Samoa, he commits an offence against this
    Order and shall be liable accordingly.

  3. (1.) An order made by the Administrator under this Order
    may at any time be revoked by him.

(2.) The revocation of any such order shall not operate so as to
render unlawful anything theretofore done pursuant to the order, or
anything that may be thereafter done by any person in intended
pursuance of the order without notice of its revocation.

  1. (1.) If an officer of Customs or of police has reason to believe
    or suspect that any person arriving in Samoa from beyond
    the seas is a person whose landing in Samoa is prohibited by
    this Order, or whose intention to land in Samoa should be com-
    municated to the Administrator for the purposes of this Order, such
    officer may, by order signed by him, temporarily prohibit that person
    from landing in Samoa.

(2.) Every such order shall, unless sooner revoked, expire in
forty-eight hours after the day on which it was signed.

(3.) Every person who, with knowledge that such an order has
been made against him, lands in Samoa while the order remains in
force commits an offence against this Order and shall be liable
accordingly.

  1. (1.) It shall not be lawful for any Chinaman to land in
    Samoa save in pursuance of a permit issued by a Collector of
    Customs under this Order.

(2.) No such permit shall be issued in respect of any Chinaman
until and unless—

(a.) The Collector is satisfied that the Chinaman is able to read
and understand a printed passage of not less than one
hundred words in the English language, to be selected by
the Collector; and



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1 April 1920
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