Prohibition
of contract
184
passenger, and who shall explain to such passenger the true intent and meaning of such contract passage ticket with the object of ascertaining that he or she understands where he or she is going and that he or she is not acting under compulsion or being influenced to emigrate by false representations; and, (2.) in the case of every other Asiatic passenger attend, either personally or by his duly authorised representa- tive, with him at the medical inspection on board ship which inspection shall also be attended by the Registrar General in whose presence the true intent and mean- ing of the contract passage ticket shall be explained to such passenger with the object of ascertaining that be understands where he is going and that he is not acting under compulsion or being influenced to emi- grate by false representations. Provided that when- ever it may appear desirable the Governor-in-Council may direct that any of the provisions of this sub- section may be dispensed with in the case of passen- gers travelling to any British possession.
36. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to he of alteration altered, rendered useless, or destroyed, after it is once issued, or shall fraudulently induce any person to part with, or render useless, or destroy, any such contract passage ticket, nutil the termination of the passage which it is intended to evidence.
pessage
ticket.
Authority of passage
as agent, etc.
37. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any person, whether a licensed broker or not, receive money broker to act for or on account of the passage of any passenger on board an emigrant ship, without having a written authority to act as such agent, or, on the demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his licence and such written authority.
Giving of
notice of contract with
emigrant to Registrar General.
Fecs
of medical officer.
Medical
emigrants under
38. Every passage broker who contracts with any in- tending emigrant for a passage in any ship shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Registrar General of every such contract, specifying the name, age, and sex of such emigrant and the name of such ship.
Medical Inspection.
39. Any medical officer whose duty it may be to inspect imending emigrants and to supervise all matters and things in any way relating to the comfort and well-being of such emigrants before their departure and on their voyage, shall be entitled to charge such fees as may from time to time be prescribed by the Governor-in-Council, Sucht fees shall be paid by the medical officer into the General Re- venue of the Colony,
45. The medical inspection of emigrants other than Free inspection of Asiatic emigrants shall take place on shore before embarka- tion as well as on board the ship after embarkation, and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate unless he is satisfied that such donble inspection has been duly made or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.
contract of service.
Time For medical inspection
after em- barkation.
Right of Chinese
medical
practitioner
to be surgeon of ship.
Mis-
represent- ation.
41. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarkation in any Chinese passenger ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration Officer may appoint.
42. Any Chinese medical practitioner shall be eligible, with the approval of the Governor, for the office of surgeon of any ship for the purposes of the Act or of this Ordin-
ance,
Misrepresentation and Fraud.
43.-(1.) No person shall, by any fraud, or by false representation as to the size of the ship or otherwise, or by any false pretence whatsoever, induce any person to engage any passage as aforesaid.
(2.) No person shall falsely represent any contract or assisted emigrant to be a free Asiatic emigrant.