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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. 8. 494.—The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 22nd December, 1938:—
[No. 18-26.9.38.-2.]
Short title.
Amendment
No. 30 of 1915, Fourth
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend further the Asiatic Emigration
Ordinance, 1915.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Asiatic Emigration (No. 2) Amendment Ordinance, 1938.
2. The Fourth Schedule to the Asiatic Emigration Ordin- of Ordinance ance, 1915, is amended by the addition to regulation 2 thereof of the following words: ", nor, where the number of emigrants on board exceeds fifty, unless there are on board a medical officer and interpreter duly approved of by such Emigration Officer.”
Schedule, T. 2.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 30 of 1915, Fifth Schedule, r. 3.
Suspending clause.
3. The Fifth Schedule to the Asiatic Emigration Ordin- ance, 1915, is amended by the addition to regulation 3 thereof of the following paragraph, as condition (4)—
"(4) a medical officer and interpreter duly approved of by the Emigration Officer shall be carried where the number of emigrants on board exceeds fifty."
4. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until His Majesty's confirmation of the same shall have been proclaimed in Hong Kong by the Governor.
Objects and Reasons.
1. The provisions of the Sixth Schedule to the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, requiring a duly approved medical officer and interpreter to be carried, have no counter- part in the case of short voyages, which are regulated by the Fourth and Fifth Schedules to that Ordinance.
2. A British ship carrying a large number of Chinese emigrants recently arrived at Saigon from Hong Kong with a case of smallpox on board.
3. The voyage to Saigon is of less than seven days' duration, but it is considered that it should be declared by the Governor to be a short voyage for the purposes of the principal Ordinance.