Section 3

(1)

It shall be the duty of the Keeper of any specified premises-

(a)

to keep a register in the form in the Sche-dule of all persons lodging at the premises who are not servants of the Keeper of the premises and who are not under the age of 12 years;

(b)

on the arrival of any such person at the pre-mises, to ascertain and enter or cause to be entered in the register kept for that purpose the name, occupation, sex and nationality of that person, and the number, place and date of issue of his identity card or, if he has no identity card, of his passport, together with the date and time of his arrival and the name of the last place from which, and the means by which, he arrived;

(c)

on the departure of any such person from the premises, to enter or cause to be entered in the register the date and time of departure and the destination on departure of such person;

(d)

to en.ter or cause to be entered in the regis-ter such o{her particulars as may be prescribed;

and

(e)

to furnish to the nearest Police Station such returns as to the persons lodging at the premises at such times or intervals and in such form as may be prescribed.

(2)

It shall be the duty of every person required to be registered under subsection (1) (a) to furnish the particulars required by this Act to be entered in the register and to sign the register.

(3)

The Keeper of any specified premises shall, if so required at any time by any police officer, make available

Registration of Guests for inspection any register kept in relation to those premises under this section, and every register shall be open at all reasonable hours for inspection by a registration officer, or any person authorised for that purpose by a registration officer.

(4)

Any police officer, registration officer or any such authorised persons as is mentioned in subsection (3)

may take an extract from any register inspected by him under that subsection, and if he has reason to suspect the genuineness of any particulars entered in the register, or if any entry therein is in his opinion incomplete or misleading, he shall be entitled to demand such further information as appears to him to be necessary from rhe persons to whom the entry relates or from any person occupying the room to which the entry relates.

( 5) Every register kept under this section shall be preserved by the Keeper of the premises to which it relates for a period of not less than 2 years from the date of the last entry and may thereafter, at the discretion of the Keeper be destroyed.

( 6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this sec-tion, the registration officer may, by notice in writing under his hand, authorise the Keeper of any specified premises mentioned in the notice to keep a register in a different form

(including a loose-leaf register or card index or a register which is partly in the form of a bound register and partly in the form of a loose-leaf register or card index) from that provided by this section.

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Read on from s 4

Section 3

Terms defined in s 2

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