Section 20

Where any person disembarks from or boards any vessel before being authorized by an immigration officer in that behalf, that person, the master and the owner or charterer of the vessel shall each be guilty of an offence against this Act and it shall be no defence to a prosecution that the master, owner, or charterer did not permit or do anything to facilitate the disembarkation or boarding of any such person, but it shall be a good defence that the master, owner, or charterer took every reasonable precaution to prevent such disembarkation or boarding.

The master of the vessel from which any person has disembarked before disembarkation has been authorized by an immigration officer shall be bound to re-embark that person and any master refusing to re-embark the person shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

(Deleted by Act A719).

Prohibition of removal of articles before examination