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rules and a competent authority may by like order and under like conditions
exempt any person from any of the said provisions.
7. Any person who—
(a) in contravention of Rule 5 lands or embarks at any port in Meso
potamia or who crosses any frontier of Mesopotamia,
(b) having been conditionally exempted from any of the provisions of
these rules does any act in contravention of any condition
specified in the order of exemption,
(c) for the purpose of obtaining a passport or an order of exemption
from any provision of these rules, or for the purpose of obtaining
the renewal or variation of a passport or order, either for himself
or for any other person makes a false statement or false representa
tion,
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six
months, or with fine, or with both.
8. Any person who voluntarily obstructs, or offers any resistance to, or
impedes, or otherwise interferes with, a competent authority, or any officer or
other person who is carrying out the orders of such authority, or who is otfier-
wise acting in accordance with his duty under any of the provmons of these
rules shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
one month, or with fine or with both, and may m addition be required to
remove himself from the limits of Mesopotamia. u
9 Any person who attempts to commit, or abets or attempts to abet tfie
commission^.any act punishable under these rules shall be punishable in
like manner as if he had committed the act. p
10 (1) A competent authority or any officer of the P oll ce or o ^e
iVnartnient empowered by general or special order by the Civil Com-
under these rule. . , ii
(2) Every authority or officer making an arrest under this rule sliai,
station.
11. Nothing in these rules shall apply to—
(a) any person whose age is, or appears to the competent authority, to
be less than fifteen years;
(b) any member of His Majesty’s Naval or Military or Royal Air I orces
1 ^ nr of the Royal Indian Marine Service and any member o± t
Civil Administration of Mesopotamia entering or leaving Meso-
a nr^b e r“of U th r e°^7'oV any vessel, who has been lawfully
ens-aued as such in any country outside Mesopotamia and who
leaves Mesopotamia in continuation of the same voyage m th
same vessel? or any member of the crew of any vessel who has been
lawfully engaged in Mesopotamia for an oversea voyage
satisfies^ competent authority that he is by occupation a seafa g
yTona fide Muhammadan pilgrim
from pilgrimage except as provided m Section 14 hereatte . _
12 Passports will not at present be issued to inhabitants of Mesopotamia..
In If t?Hfi^
of identity, the leaner oi me ^ • s h own> Any member of a
““y wkhi^g rfea™ MspOTty should" obtain a certificate of identity from
the competent authoiit\ • fTwntipr station certificates of
identity crease of Basrah and
Baghdad, to the Deputy Commissioner of P ° llC tions en t e ring or leaving
the qLpltTeS^ la “ d d0 Mt reqUire certiflcateS ° f
identity. ^ ^ A rp WILSON, Lieut. -Colonel,
Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia.
Baghdad,
Dated 2Ath October, 1919.
Obtainable from Superintendent, Government Press, Baghdad or Basrah.
(c)
(d) any
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