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(3) The master of the vessel shall make suitable arrangements
to the satisfaction of the officer of Customs and the officer of Police to
enable them to inspect and examine each passenger and each member
of the crew, and shall also provide such writing-materials and accom-
modation as may be required by those officers for the purposes of the
said Order.
(4) The Medical Officer of Health shall inform the officer of
Customs and the officer of Police as to any person on board the vessel
who comes within the restrictions of paragraph (b) or paragraph (c)
of subclause (1) of clause 4 of this Order.
(5) The officers of Customs and of Police may put such questions
as they deem necessary for the purposes of this Order to any passenger
or member of the crew.
(6) If the master or any passenger or any member of the crew
shall fail or refuse to answer any question put by an officer of Customs
or of Police under the provisions of this clause, or answers any such
question in a manner which is false or misleading in any material
particular, he shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a fine
of £50.
(7) If any passenger or member of the crew of a vessel arriving
in Samoa from places beyond Samoa shall leave the vessel before the
Collector of Customs has notified the master that all examinations,
inspections, and inquiries required to be made under this Order have
been completed, such person and the master shall each be liable to a
fine of £50.
(8) If any person other than the Pilot or Medical Officer of Health
at Apia shall board any ship arriving from beyond Samoa without
the permission of the Collector of Customs before the officers of Customs
and Police have completed their duties under this clause he shall be
guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a fine of £50.
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The master of a ship or any officer or member of the crew of a
ship if so directed by the master shall have full power and authority
to prevent any person on board that ship from landing in Samoa in
breach of the provisions of this Order, and for that purpose to use such
force and means of restraint as may be reasonably necessary.
EXEMPTION OF OVERSEAS LABOURERS.
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(1) The provisions of clauses 4 and 15 hereof shall not apply
to any person brought to Samoa as a labourer in accordance with any
scheme approved by the Minister of External Affairs for the importation
of such labourers or their service in Samoa for terms of years.
(2) The word “labourer” when used in this or the next succeeding
clause shall include a domestic labourer and a skilled or unskilled
labourer or workman of every description.
DEPORTATION OF LABOURERS.
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(1) When any person has arrived in Samoa (whether before or
after the commencement of this Order) as a labourer in pursuance of
any scheme established or consented to by the Administrator for the
importation of such labourers and their service in Samoa for terms of
years, or in pursuance of any contract to serve as a labourer for any
period, it shall be lawful for the Administrator to do such acts, matters,
and things as he thinks requisite to secure the compulsory repatriation
from Samoa of any such labourer to the country from which he came,
and for this purpose to terminate any contract of service to which such
labourer may be a party.
(2) The powers given to the Administrator in the last preceding
subclause shall be deemed to include the power to arrest a labourer at
any time after the expiration or determination of his contract of service,
and thereafter to detain him in custody pending his departure from
Samoa.
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