obtaining from the Immigration Officer within six months after entering Nigeria a certificate that he is a fit and proper person to be received as an immigrant.

(b.) If he shall, within six months after entering Nigeria, obtain from the Immigration Officer such certificate as aforesaid his deposit, if any, shall be refunded.

(c.) If he shall fail to obtain such certificate within six months as aforesaid, his deposit may be forfeited or the bond may be put in suit by any Immigration Officer, and he may be deported.

In the case of any person allowed to enter Nigeria under this section, no liability shall attach to the vessel or the owner, agent or master of such vessel.

12. (1.) Any prohibited immigrant who shall enter Nigeria except under and in accordance with the provisions of section 11 or under and in accordance with a visiting or transit permit shall be liable to a fine of 50l. or imprisonment for six months and may be deported.

(2.) No person who comes within the definition of a prohibited immigrant shall be released from the operation of this Ordinance or be allowed to be or remain in Nigeria merely because he has not been notified not to enter Nigeria or because he may have been allowed to enter Nigeria through oversight or through want of knowledge that he was a prohibited immigrant. Proof adduced within twelve months after any person has entered Nigeria that he is of any of the classes whose entry is prohibited shall be sufficient evidence that such person was a prohibited immigrant, and such person shall be liable to be then dealt with as a probibited immigrant and the certificate, if any, issued to him shall be deemed to be cancelled.

(3.) When arrangements have been made for the deportation of a person undergoing a sentence of imprisonment imposed under sub-section (1) such person may be taken and placed on board the ship on which he is to be deported, notwithstanding that the full term of imprisonment has not been served.

13. (1.) Any Immigration Officer may for the purposes of this Ordinance board as often as may be necessary any ship.

(2.) Any police officer or Immigration Officer may, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, prevent any prohibited immigrant from entering Nigeria by land or sea, and may without warrant arrest any person suspected of being a prohibited immigrant, provided he shall without delay bring the person arrested before a magistrate, unless the ship from which such person may have landed shall be on the point of departure, in which case he may hand such person over to the

custody of the master of the ship, unless the person arrested shall demand to be taken before a magistrate.

14.-(1.) The master and the owner and the agent of any ship from which any prohibited immigrant shall land or be landed shall be jointly and severally liable to pay to the Government all expenses incurred by the Government in connection with the transport and maintenance of such immigrant and his deportation from Nigeria:

Provided that this sub-section shall not apply in the case of an immigrant who has been granted a certificate under section 10 on such landing, or on a previous entry if such certificate has not been cancelled.

(2.) Whenever any non-native arrives in Nigeria under an engagement to serve any other person and within twelve months of such arrival such non-native becomes liable to be dealt with as a prohibited immigrant the person with whom such engagement was made shall be liable to pay to the Government all expenses which may be incurred by the Government in connection with the maintenance and transport of such non-native and his deportation from Nigeria.

(3.) Any person who shall be instrumental in bringing into Nigeria any idiot or insane person shall be liable to pay to the Government all expenses which may be incurred by the Government in connection with the maintenance and transport of such idiot or insane person and his deportation from Nigeria.

(4.) The amount of any such expenses as aforesaid shall be recoverable in an action brought by or in the name of the Principal Immigration Officer.

15. When an order for the deportation of a prohibited immigrant is made and he cannot be placed on board the ship, if any, from which he disembarked, any Immigration Officer may, with the approval of the Principal Immigration Officer, make a contract with the master, owner or agent of any ship for the conveyance of the prohibited immigrant to a port in the United Kingdom or in or near such immigrant's country of birth, and such immigrant with his personal effects (if any) may be placed by a police officer on board such ship.

16.--(1.) No non-native seaman shall be discharged from any ship in Nigeria except with the consent of an Immigration Officer, which consent shall not be given unless the master, owner or agent of the ship shall have made arrangements to the satisfaction of the Immigration Officer to ensure that the seaman shall not become a pauper or public charge in Nigeria.

(2.) Any non-native seaman who shall be discharged without such consent or who shall in Nigeria desert from his

ship or shall be left behind shall be deemed to be a prohibited immigrant.

17. Should the master of a ship charge any member of his crew, or stowaway or extra hand before a magistrate with an offence committed at some time prior to the ship's arrival or while the ship is in a port, the magistrate may, in awarding punishment, order that, on the expiration of the sentence or on the sooner readiness of the ship to proceed to sea, the person charged shall be conducted in custody aboard the ship for conveyance away from Nigeria.

Any person charged as aforesaid and discharged by the magistrate shall be ordered by the magistrate to be immediately conveyed back to the ship.

18. Any person other than a British subject or a native of Nigeria or a person who at the commencement of this Ordinance was carrying on missionary or educational work in Nigeria, who shall without the permission in writing of His Majesty's Government or of the Governor carry on either missionary or educational work in Nigeria shall be liable to a fine of 501. or to imprisonment for six months and may be dealt with as a prohibited immigrant.

19. (1.) A prohibited immigrant may apply to an Immigration Officer for a pass to enter Nigeria for a temporary visit, or for the purpose of passing through Nigeria to, or embarking for, some other country.

Such passes are hereinafter referred to as visiting passes and transit passes respectively, and shall be in such form as may be prescribed.

(2.) The applicant shall attend before the Immigration Officer and shall answer such questions as the officer may put in order to satisfy himself that the pass ought to be granted.

(3.) If the Immigration Officer shall decide to grant the pass he shall require the applicant or some person on his behalf to deposit the sum of 30l. and, if the applicant is accompanied by his wife or children a further sum of 301. in respect of each person accompanying him.

20.-(1.) A visiting pass shall authorise the person named therein to enter Nigeria and to remain there during the period stated in the pass. Such period shall not exceed twenty-one days, but a Lieutenant-Governor or any Immigration Officer may, for sufficient reason appearing, extend the period from time to time by endorsement on the pass.

No extension shall be made for more than fourteen days at a time, and no such pass shall be extended beyond six weeks from the date of the pass except with the consent of the Governor.

(2.) The money deposited for a visiting pass shall be

returned to the depositor upon the passholder quitting Nigeria within the time named in the pass or any extension thereof.

21.-(1.) A transit pass shall authorise the person named therein to enter Nigeria and to proceed with all reasonable speed to the place specified therein as the place at which he is to embark or leave Nigeria and thence leave Nigeria or embark on the first available opportunity.

(2.) The money deposited for a transit pass shall be returned to the depositor upon the passholder quitting Nigeria, provided that when the passholder is leaving Nigeria by ship the whole or any portion of the sum deposited may with the approval of the depositor be devoted to the purchase of passages for the persons named in the pass.

22. A prohibited immigrant who having entered Nigeria in pursuance of a visiting or transit pass shall remain in Nigeria beyond the time allowed by such pass shall be liable to a fine of 50l. or to imprisonment for six months, and may be dealt with as a prohibited immigrant, and all sums deposited in respect of the pass shall be forfeited.

23. Any person who

(a.) Aids or assists any prohibited immigrant to enter Nigeria in contravention of this Ordinance;

(b.) Wilfully disobeys or disregards any obligations imposed by this Ordinance;

(c.) Resists or obstructs actively or passively any Immigration Officer in the execution of his duty;

(d.) Gives, sells or lends any certificate, pass or permit issued to him under this Ordinance in order that it shall be used by any other person, or uses as a certificate, pass or permit issued to him any certificate, pass or permit issued to any other person;

(e.) By false declaration obtains for himself or any other person any certificate, pass or permit; or

(f.) Being the master of a ship, knowingly permits any prohibited immigrant to land from his ship in contravention of this Ordinance, or refuses to receive on board, or neglects to take reasonable measures to keep on board any prohibited immigrant who shall have landed from his ship and been replaced on board

shall be liable to a fine of 50l. or imprisonment for six months and when a master of a ship is charged with any such offence clearance outwards of the ship shall be refused until the charge has been heard and the fine, if any, imposed has been paid.

24. The Governor in Council may make regulations for all or any of the purposes following:

(a.) Requiring the master of every ship which carries any

non-native passenger from any places in Nigeria to any place outside Nigeria to furnish to such person and in such manner as may be prescribed a return giving such particulars with respect to such passenger as may be required;

(b.) Prescribing the fees to be paid and the forms to be used under this Ordinance; and

(c.) Generally for carrying out and giving effect to the purposes of this Ordinance.

25. "The Immigrant Paupers Ordinance, 1908,"* and the Ordinances amending the same are hereby repealed.

Assented to in His Majesty's name in so far as the provisions hereof relate to the Colony, and enacted by me in so far as the provisions hereof relate to the Protectorate, this 8th day of November, 1917.

F. D. LUGARD,

Governor-General.

ORDINANCE of the Government of the Colony of Nigeria to amend "The Naturalisation of Aliens Ordinance, 1916."t

[No. 9.]

[April 18, 1918. ]

BE it enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Nigeria, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Naturalisation of Aliens (Revocation of Certificates) Ordinance, 1918," and shall be read and construed as one with The Naturalisation of Aliens Ordinance, 1916."

2.—(1.) Where it appears to the Governor in Council that a certificate of naturalisation granted by the Governor has been obtained by false representations or fraud, the Governor in Council may by order revoke the certificate, and may, if it appears expedient before doing so, refer the case for such enquiry as is hereinafter specified.

(2.) Without prejudice to the foregoing provision the Governor in Council may by order revoke a certificate of naturalisation granted by the Governor in any case in which it is shown to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, after such enquiry, as is hereinafter specified, that the person to whom the certificate was granted either:

(a.) Has shown himself by overt act or speech to be disloyal to His Majesty; or

(b.) Has within five years of the date of the grant of the • Vol. CII, page 566. Vol. CX, page 401.