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Affairs or other place appointed for the examination to be held by the Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs, and shall then furnish the Secretary for Chinese. Affairs, or such officer as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs may appoint, with two copies of the photograph of every such emigrant. with the names, ages, and number of the said emigrants, numbered to correspond with a list con- taining the names, ages, sex, destination, occupation and any other particu- lars which may be required by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs concerning each emigrant entered thereon together with the name of the ship by which each emigrant intends to sail and the date of departure
(2) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to employ pho- tographers to furnish the photographs required by this section.
PART IV. PENALTIES.
47. Except where otherwise, expressly prescribed under the provisions of this Ordinance, every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.
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48. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of any regulation contained in the Schedules to this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanour,
49. The master of any ship failing or neglecting to comply with the pro- visions of section 6 shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceed- ing six months.
(ss. 50 and 51, rep. No. 21 of 1922).
52. Every person who-
(1) makes or attempts to make any fraudulent use of a certificate
granted under the provisions of this Ordinance; or
(2) forges, counterfeits, alters, or crases the whole or any part
thereof; or
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(3) uses or attempts to use any spurious or fraudulent certificate,
and every person aiding and abetting in such office; or
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(4) by any fraud or false representation as to the size of a ship or otherwise or by any false pretence whatsocver induce any person to engage a passage in any emigrant ship; or
(5) falsely represents any assisted emigrant to be a non-assisted
emigrant,
shall be liable upon conviction either summarily or on indictment to impri- sonment for any term not exceeding one year and to a fine not exceeding one. thousand dollars.
53. Every person who-
(1) unlawfully, either by force or fraud, takes away or detain
against his will any person with intent to put him on board“ any emigrant ship; or
(2) with any such intent, receives, or harbours, or enters into any contract for foreign service with any person so taken away or detained,
shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.
54. Every person who falsely and deceitfully personates, or aids and abets in falsely and deceitfully personating, an emigrant or intending emigrant at an attendance before or examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or any officer appointed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or an Emigration Officer, required by this or any other cnactment for the time being in force relating to Asiatic emigration, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not excceding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.