Fees of
persons employed.
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12. The Emigration Officer shall from time to time fix professional a reasonable scale of fees and charges, to be approved by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, for the remuneration of any professional persons who may be employed by him under the last preceding Regulation, and, pending the approval or disapproval of such scale, the fees and charges therein specified shall be payable, as if the same had been approved in manner aforesaid,
Fees of Emigration Officer
See Ordin- ance No. 16 of 1901.
Power to detain ship for non- payment of fees, etc.
Withholding
etc., in case
of false par- ticulars fur
nished.
13. The owners or charterers of every ship shall pay such fees for the remuneration of the Emigration Officer as may, from time to time, be ordered under instructions from one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and, until and subject to such instructions, the following fees shall be payable in addition to all fees and charges payable under the last preceding Regulation :-
1. upon every application for a certifiente ......$25; Provided that for an Emigration Officer's certificate deliver- ed at a second port on the same voyage for a ship which has already received a certificate at the first port the fee shall be only $12.50: Provided, also, always that no fees shall be payable to the Emigration Officer of this Colony, but in lieu thereof the following stamp duties are hereby imposed: that is to say,
1. upon every application for a certifiente muder
Regulation 2, a stamp duty of........... $ 1
2. upon every certificate granted under Regula-
tion 1, a stamp duty of......
$ 1
and any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to stamps shall be read as if the s amp duties hereby imposed were inserted in the schedule thereof.
14. In case default is made by the owners or charterers of the ship in the payment of any fees, costs, or charges to which they may be liable under the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1912, and these Regulations the ship may be detained by the British Consul, or if in this Colony by the Governor, until such fees, costs and charges shall have been paid.
15. The Emigration Officer may withhold his certificate- of certificate, or revoke the same at any time before the departure of the ship, if it appears, to his satisfaction, that any particulars contained in the application in writing which has been made for the same, or any other particulars which may have been furnished to him by or on behalf of the owners, charterers, or master of the ship in relation thereto, are un- true, or that the requirements of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1912, have not been complied with; and in every such ease it shall be lawful for the British Consul, or if in this Colony for the Governor, to seize and detain the ship until the certificate, if already granted, has been delivered up to be cancelled.
Treatment of
sea.
16. The master of every such British emigrant ship as passengers at defined by the said Ordinance shall, during the whole of the intended voyage, make issues of provisions, fuel, and water, according to the aforesaid dietary scale, to all the passengers except such as have supplied them- selves therewith, and shall not make any alteration, except for the manifest advantage of the passengers, in respect of the space allotted to them as aforesaid or in respect of the means of ventilation, and shall not ill-use the passon- gers or require them (except in case of necessity) to help in working the ship; and shall, in cases where a Medical Officer is not carried, issue medicines and medical comforts, as may be requisite, to the best of his judgment; and shall call at such ports as may be mentioned in the Emigration Officer's clearing certificate for fresh water and other necessaries; and shall carry the passengers without unuccessary delay to the destination to which they have contracted to proceed.
Mustering of passengers by master.
17. Before the arrival of any such British ship at the port for which the passengers have embarked, the master shall cause the passengers to be mustered for the purpose of ascertaining that there are none on board who are not in possession of an emigration contract ticket al included in the Emigration Officer's certificate and detailed list of passengers; if any such are found, it shall be duty of the master to hand them over to the proper authority to be dealt with according to law.
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