A.D. 1889.]
CHINESE EMIGRATION,
within the meaning of the Act.
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26. Every person who impedes the Emigration Officer in the execution or performance of any of the powers or duties vested in or imposed upon him by this Ordinance, or any regulation thereunder, shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars for each offence, for which no other punishment is provided.
Emigration Passage Brokers.
Chinese passenger broker without having entered into bond and obtained licence.
27.-(1.) No person shall act as a passenger broker or in procuring passengers for, or in the sale or letting of passages in, any passenger ship proceeding on a voyage of more than seven days' duration unless he has, with two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Emigration Officer, entered into a joint and several bond in the sum of five thousand dollars to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, according to the form in the Fifth Schedule to this Ordinance, which bond shall be renewed on each occasion of obtaining such licence as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited with the Emigration Officer; nor unless such person has obtained a licence to let or sell passages; nor unless such licence is then in force.
(2.) Where different members of the same firm act as passage brokers, each person so acting shall comply with the terms of this section.
Fifth Schedule.
28. Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as a passage broker shall make application for the same to the Emigration Officer, and the Emigration Officer is hereby authorized, if he thinks fit, to grant such licence, according to the form in the Sixth Schedule to this Ordinance: Provided always that no such licence shall be granted unless such bond as is mentioned in the last preceding section has been first entered into: Provided, also, that any Magistrate who adjudicates on any offence committed by such broker against this Ordinance is hereby authorized to order the offender's licence to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited accordingly; and the said Magistrate making such order shall forthwith cause notice of such forfeiture, in the form in the Seventh Schedule to this Ordinance, to be transmitted to the Emigration Officer, and such forfeiture shall be exclusive and independent of any other punishment which may be inflicted upon such offender under the provisions of this Ordinance.
Seventh Schedule.
29. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid shall pay to the Emigration Officer a fee of two hundred dollars, which fee the Emigration Officer is hereby empowered and required to demand and receive on the issuing of any such licence; and the Emigration Officer shall pay all such fees into the Colonial Treasury, to the use of the Crown.