ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1866.
Victoria Registration.
sum of five dollars on the issue of the duplicate aforesaid: Provided also that if any servant shall lose his certificate and shall satisfy the Registrar General that he has not improperly parted with it, it shall be lawful for the Registrar General to issue a fresh certificate to such servant on payment of one dollar.
27. It shall not be lawful for any person other than a Chinese to engage or employ any servant who shall not be provided with a certificate of registration.
28. It shall not be lawful for any person to engage himself as a servant without being provided with a certificate of registration.
29. Every person who shall engage himself, after the commencement of this Ordinance, as a servant, shall within seven days thereafter report the same at the Registrar General's Office and produce his certificate of registration for the purpose of having the name of his employer endorsed thereon and recorded in the said office.
30. Every person who shall knowingly furnish untrue particulars to the Registrar General concerning any matter required to be recorded by him under this Ordinance shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labor for not less than one and not more than six calendar months, and to a fine either in addition to or in substitution of such imprisonment of not less than five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars.
31. Every person who shall use or attempt to use any certificate of registration which shall not have been duly obtained by him at the Registrar General's Office, shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labor for not less than one and not more than six calendar months, and to a fine either in addition to or in substitution of such imprisonment of not less than ten dollars and not more than one hundred dollars.
32. Every person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance or any of the regulations to be made by the Governor in Council hereafter mentioned, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and in all cases not otherwise provided for shall be fined on summary conviction before a Magistrate of Police not more than thirty dollars nor less than five dollars for each offence, or in default of payment of such fine or fines to be imprisoned with or without hard labor for a period not exceeding one month nor less than seven days.
33. All copies or extracts of or from any register or public record kept in the Registrar General's Office for the purpose of this Ordinance, and purporting to be sealed with the seal of the said office and to be certified as true copies or extracts by the Registrar General, shall be received in evidence in all Courts in the Colony in lieu of the originals.
34. The several fees specified in the second schedule hereto shall be charged in respect of registration under this Ordinance.
35. The Governor in Council may from time to time alter the scale of fees payable under this Ordinance.
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No person to engage a servant without certificate of registration.
No servant to engage himself without certificate of registration. Servant hereafter engaging himself as such to produce certificate to Registrar General within seven days.
Punishment for furnishing untrue particulars.
Punishment for unlawfully using certificate of registration.
Violations of this Ordinance to be misdemeanors.
Certified copies and extracts from Registrar General's records to be received in evidence.
Fees to be charged under this Ordinance.
Power to Governor in Council to alter scale.