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4. The object of the present amendment is to require a doctor and interpreter to be carried by ships having on board more than fifty emigrants, even on short voyages, and thus to assimilate the requirements of the Asiatic Emigration Ordin- ! ance to those of section 303 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
5. Clauses 2 and 3 of this Bill effect this amendment by adding to regulation 2 of the Fourth Schedule and to regulation 3 of the Fifth Schedule to the principal Ordinance which apply to short voyages words requiring a medical officer and inter- preter duly approved by the Emigration Officer to be carried where the number of emigrants on board exceeds fifty.
6. Clause 4 of the Bill is the suspending clause required by the proviso to section 2 of the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, (18 & 19 Vict., c. 104).
November, 1938.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
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