600
Duration of licence.
Giving of contract ticket for passage.
Eighth Schedule.
Production to Emigration Officer of certificate of chartering ship for carrying emigrants.
Attendance before Registrar General or Officer for purpose of delivering contract tickets to passengers.
No. 1.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1889.
30. Such licence shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December in the year in which such licence is granted, and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as hereinbefore mentioned.
31.(1.) Every passage broker who receives money from any person for or in respect of a passage in any Chinese passenger ship shall give to such person a contract ticket, under the hand of such passage broker and stamped with his seal or trade mark.
(2.) Each ticket shall be printed in a plain and legible type, according to the form in the Eighth Schedule to this Ordinance, and shall be accompanied with a translation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.
32. Every such passage broker, before he receives or takes any money on account of any such passage or for the sale or letting of the whole or any part of the accommodation of or in any Chinese passenger ship proceeding from this Colony, shall produce to the Emigration Officer the certificate of the master or owner of the ship in respect of which such passage has been taken or the accommodation in which has been so sold or let, to the effect that such ship has been chartered for the purpose of carrying emigrants, and that such passage broker is authorized to receive payment for such passage or for the sale or letting of the accommodation in such ship; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Emigration Officer.
33. On every occasion of the delivery to any passenger of such contract ticket as aforesaid, the passage broker who has engaged to provide such passenger with a passage shall,—
(1.) in the case of every male passenger under the age of sixteen years and of every female passenger, attend with him or her at the office of or other place appointed by the Registrar General, in whose presence the contract ticket shall be delivered to such passenger, and who shall explain to such passenger the true intent and meaning of such contract ticket with the object of ascertaining that he or she understands where he or she is going and that he or she is not acting under compulsion or being influenced to emigrate by false representations; and,
(2.) in the case of every other passenger, attend with him at the office of the Emigration Officer, in whose presence the contract ticket shall be delivered to such passenger, and who shall explain to such passenger the true intent and meaning of such contract ticket with the object of ascertaining that he understands where he is going and that he is not acting under compulsion or being influenced to emigrate by false representations.