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territory to issue to any intending immigrant a certificate that he is exempt from the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 2, but no such certificate shall be recognized in the territory unless the holder thereof furnish to the Immigration Officer such proof as is prescribed by regulation of his identity with the immigrant. to whom the certificate was originally issued.

19.-(1.) The Administrator may make regulations not inconsistent with this Proclamation, prescribing

(a.) The powers and duties of Immigration Officers;

(b.) The steps to be taken to prevent the entrance of prohibited immigrants into the territory;

(c.) The times, places, and conduct of the enquiry or examination, medical or otherwise, of persons entering or desiring to enter the territory, or who, being found in the territory, are suspected of being prohibited immigrants or unlawfully resident therein;

(d.) The procedure for and the manner of the detention of prohibited immigrants and unlawful residents pending their removal from the territory, and the procedure necessary for and the manner of such removal;

(e.) The means to be taken for the identification of any person believed to be a prohibited immigrant, including the taking of photograph and finger print impressions;

(f) Lists of infectious, contagious, loathsome, or other diseases (other than tuberculosis), the affliction with which will render a person a prohibited immigrant; and the conditions governing the issue to any person infected with tuberculosis of a permit to enter the territory;

(9.) The other permits and the certificates which may be issued under this Proclamation, the conditions upon which any such permit or certificate may be issued, the circumstances under which they may be cancelled or withdrawn, and the fees which may be charged for any such permit or certificate; and the amount and nature of the security to be found for the due carrying out of any conditions upon which a permit to enter and reside for a specified period may be issued to a prohibited immigrant ;

(h.) The conditions under which prohibited immigrants may be allowed to pass through the territory while journeying or being conveyed to a place outside the territory;

(.) The forms of warrants, permits, certificates, or other documents to be issued or used, or of the declarations to be made, or of the books to be kept for the purposes of this Proclamation, and the particulars to be inserted in any such document or book; and

(j.) Generally for the better carrying out of the objects and purposes of this Proclamation.

(2.) The regulations may prescribe penalties for the contravention thereof or failure to comply therewith not exceeding the penalties mentioned in the next preceding section.

20. Any person who→

(a.) For the purpose of entering the territory or of remaining therein in contravention of this Proclamation or any other law, or of assisting any other person so to enter or so to remain, fabricates or falsifies any permit, certificate, or other document, or utters, uses, or attempts to use any permit, certificate, or other document which has not been issued by lawful authority, or which, though issued by lawful authority, he is not entitled to use, or any fabricated or falsified permit, certificate, or other document knowing it to have been fabricated or falsified; or

(b.) Fails to comply with or contravenes the conditions under which any permit, certificate, or other document has been issued to him under this Proclamation; or

(c.) Obstructs, hinders, or opposes any Immigration Officer or Police Officer in the execution of his duty under this Proclamation; or

(d.) Contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this Proclamation for the contravention whereof or failure to comply wherewith no penalty is specially provided;

shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding 50, or in default of payment to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding three months, and in the case of a contravention of paragraph (a) of this section, to such imprisonment without the option of a fine.

21. In this Proclamation and in the regulations thereunder, unless inconsistent with the context

"Domicile" shall mean the place in which a person has his present home, or in which he resides, or to which he returns as his place of present permanent abode, and not for a mere special or temporary purpose; and a person shall not be deemed to have a domicile within the territory, Southern Rhodesia, or the Bechuanaland Protectorate (as the case may be), for the purposes of this Proclamation, unless he has resided therein for at least two years otherwise than under terms of conditional or temporary residence permitted by this Proclamation or any other law in force in the territory, Southern Rhodesia, or the Bechuanaland Protectorate (as the case may be), or as a person under detention in a prison, gaol, reformatory, or lunatic asylum; and a person shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Proclamation, to have lost his domicile within the territory, Southern Rhodesia, or the Bechuanaland Protectorate (as the case may be) if he voluntarily go and reside outside the territory, Southern Rhodesia, or the Bechuanaland Protectorate (as the case may be) (except for a special or temporary purpose) with the intention of making his home outside the territory, Southern Rhodesia, or the Bechuanaland Protectorate (as the case may be).

"Immigration Officer" shall mean any person on whom powers have been conferred or to whom duties have been assigned by the Administrator as to the carrying out of this Proclamation.

22. This Proclamation may be cited for all purposes as

"The Immigrants' Regulation (Northern Rhodesia) Proclamation, 1915.”

God save the King!

Given under my hand and seal at Pretoria, this 4th day of August, 1915.

BUXTON, High Commissioner.

By command of his Excellency the High Commissioner.

C. H. RODWELL, Imperial Secretary.

ACT of the State of South Australia to prohibit the Use of White Phosphorus in the Manufacture of Matches, and to prohibit the Sale of Matches made with White Phosphorus, and for other purposes.

[No. 1202.]

[Assented to November 18, 1915.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of the State of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Parliament thereof, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act, 1915."

2. This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1916.

3. In this Act

"Justice" means Justice of the Peace for the said State.

"Minister" means Minister of the Crown to whom the administration of this Act is, for the time being, committed by the Governor.

"White phosphorus" means the substance usually known as white or yellow phosphorus.

4.-(1.) No person shall

(a.) Make, or cause to be made, any matches in the making of which white phosphorus is used; or

(b.) Sell or offer or expose for sale, or cause to be sold or offered or exposed for sale, or have in his possession for sale, any matches made with white phosphorus.

(2.) Any person who is guilty of any contravention of this section shall be liable, if the offence is a contravention of subdivision (a) of sub-section (1) hereof, to a penalty not exceeding 501., or, if of sub-division (b) of the said sub-section, to a penalty not exceeding 101.

(3.) The Magistrate or Justices by whom any person is convicted of any such offence may, in addition to imposing any penalty, forfeit any white phosphorus, or any matches made with white phosphorus, which is or are apparently in the possession or custody or control of such person; and the phosphorus or

matches so forfeited shall be destroyed or otherwise dealt with as such Magistrate or Justices direct.

5. The occupier of any premises or place within which, or within the precincts of which, the making of matches is carried on shall allow any inspector under "The Factories Act, 1907," or "The Health Act, 1898," or any person appointed in writing by the Minister in that behalf, to enter at any time such premises, place, or precincts, and to open any package therein and examine the contents thereof, and, without payment, to take for analysis sufficient samples of any material therein in use or mixed for use, or any matches therein; and in default thereof such occupier shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and be liable to a penalty not exceeding 201

6. Any person who in any way resists, hinders, obstructs, or interferes with any inspector or other person in the exercise of any of his powers under this Act shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 207.

7. When an inspector takes a sample for analysis under section 5, he shall, if required so to do by the occupier of the premises or place, or the person in charge or apparently in charge thereof, and on such occupier or person providing the necessary appliances

(i.) Divide the sample into three parts;

(ii.) Place each part in a separate package, and seal or fasten each package in such manner as its nature will permit;

(iii.) Place on each package a label or mark stating the name, so far as known to him, of the occupier of the premises or place;

(iv.) Deliver one of such parts to such occupier, or to the person in charge or apparently in charge of the premises or place; and

(v.) Retain one of such parts for future comparison.

The other of such parts may be utilized for analysis.

8. When in any proceedings a contravention of any provision of this Act is proved with regard to a sample of any material, such contravention shall be deemed to have been proved with regard to the whole lot from which the sample was taken.

9.-(1.) At the hearing of any proceedings with regard to any sample taken under this Act, or any part of such sample, which sample or part is alleged to have been analysed by the Government analyst, or with regard to the lot from which such sample was taken, the production of a certificate purporting to be signed by the Government analyst shall, without proof of the signature thereto, be sufficient evidence

(i.) Of the identity of the thing analysed;

(ii.) Of the result of the analysis; and

(iii.) Of the matters stated in such certificate,

unless the defendant, by at least three clear days' (exclusive of Sundays and public holidays) notice in writing delivered to the informant, and by a like three clear days' (exclusive as aforesaid)

notice delivered, with a witness fee of 17. 1s., to the said analyst, requires that the said analyst shall attend as a witness.

(2.) In any case where the attendance of the analyst is required as mentioned in this section, the Magistrate or Justices may, in addition to any other order as to costs, make such order as he or they deem proper as to the witness fee paid to the analyst, and as to the expenses of and the remuneration to be paid for the analysis.

10.-(1.) All proceedings in respect of offences against this Act shall be heard and determined in a summary way by a Special Magistrate or two Justices, and shall be regulated by the Ordinance No. 6 of 1850 and any amendments thereof, or by any Act or Acts for the time being in force relating to the duties of Justices with respect to summary proceedings.

(2.) All convictions and orders made by such Magistrate or Justices may be enforced as provided by the said Ordinance or any other Act.

and

11.-1.) There shall be an appeal

(a.) From any order of a Special Magistrate or Justices; (6.) From any conviction by a Special Magistrate or Justices;

(c.) From any order dismissing an information or complaint, under this Act.

(2.) Such appeal shall be to the Local Court of Adelaide in its full jurisdiction.

(3.) Such appeal shall be regulated by the Ordinance No. 6 of 1850 and any amendments thereof, or any Act or Acts for the time being in force regulating appeals to Local Courts.

(4.) Such Local Court may make such order as to costs as it thinks just, and the amount of costs ordered may exceed 107. 12.-(1.) Such Local Court may state a special case or cases for the opinion of the Supreme Court.

(2.) The Supreme Court shall deal with any such special case according to the practice of the Supreme Court on special cases and may make such order therein, including any order as to the costs of the proceedings in that Court and in the Court below, as to the said Supreme Court appears just.

(3.) The Supreme Court may send the special case back for amendment or may itself amend the same.

(4.) The Magistrate or Justices, or the Local Court, shall make an order in respect of the matters referred to the Supreme Court, in conformity with the certificate of the Supreme Court or a Judge thereof.

(5.) Such order of the Magistrate or Justices, or Local Court, shall be enforced in manner provided by section 10 of this Act or otherwise by law.

In the name and on behalf of His Majesty. I hereby assent to this Bill. H. L. GALWAY, Governor.

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