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Commander or master of any ship
includes any
OF
person for the time being in command charge of the same:
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Short voyage means any voyage to any port in British North Borneo, Borneo, Labuan, Brunei, Surawak, or Siam in any place which may be declared by the Governor-in-Conneil to be a place to which the provisions of this Ordinance relating to short voyages shall apply: Long voyage" menus any voyage of more than seven days duration within the meaning of the Act but not exceeding thirty days duration : Extended voyage means any voyage of more than thirty days duration within the meaning of the Act.
3. Any emigrant ship or British emigrant ship clear- Definition of ing ont or proceeding to sea ou any voyage to any soyage. port for the purpose of commencing at or from such port any short, long or extended voyage shall be deemed to have cleared out or procceded to sea upon the said last mentioned voyage from the Colony or from a port in China or within one hundred miles of the coast thereof, as the case may he.
4.-(1.) The Harbour Master shall be the Emigration Legislation Officer in this Colony for the purpose of sections 4 and 6 authorised
of the Act.
(2.) The provisions of this Ordinance respecting ships and the treatment of passengers while at sea are hereby substituted for the regulations contained in Schedule (A) to the Act and shall be deemed to be regulations made under section 2 of the Act.
by the Act.
Schedule.
(3.) The form contained in the First Schedule to this First Ordinance shall be substituted for the form of certificate contained in Schedule B to the Act.
(4.) The form contained in the Second Schedule to this Second Ordinance shall be substituted for the form contained in Schedule. Schedule C to the Act.
of voyages of
5. The voyages specified in the Tenth Schedule to Specification this Ordinance are hereby declared to be voyages of not more than thirty days duration.
6.-(1.) Save as is provided in sub-section (2) of this section nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to passengers who are natives of Asia travelling or about to travel in the first class of any vessel which is provided with a general licence, on the same terms as non-Asiatic passengers, or in the first or second class, if the vessel carries more than two classes of passengers.
(2.) Such passengers shall, however, in cases where other Asiatic passcugers are carried, be reckoned in calcu- lating the number of passengers, natives of Asia, who are carried by the said vessel.
PART II.
Emigrant Ships and British Emigrant Ships.
not more
than thirty days duration. Tenth Schedule.
Saving of right of
Asiatic passengers to
travel in first or second class as other nationalities.
Officer of
7. The master of every ship arriving within the waters Report to of the Colony with or intended for carrying from the Emigration Colony more than twenty Asistic emigrants shall, within arrival of twenty-four hours, report the same to the Emigration emigrant Officer; and in case he neglects to do so, he shall be liable ship. on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
9. No emigrant ship or British emigrant ship shall Certific.te. clear out or proceed to sea on any short, long or extended voyage without a certificate from the Emigration Officer in the form contained in the First Schedule to this Or- dinance.