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CHINESE EMIGRATION,
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to embark in any Chinese passenger ship, or for the master or other person on board of a Chinese passenger ship to permit any such emigrant to embark therein, unless such emigrant produces an embarkation permit from the Emigration Officer, who shall not grant the same unless he is satisfied that such emigrant has undergone on shore the medical inspection required by law to be made before embarkation.
45. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarkation in any Chinese passenger ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration Officer may appoint.
be received on board permit.
Time for -- medical inspection after embarkation.
Chinese medical practitioner
46. Any Chinese medical practitioner, properly qualified to the satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon, shall be eligible, with the approval of the Governor, for the office of surgeon of a Chinese passenger ship for the purposes of the Act or of this Ordinance.
to be surgeon of Chinese passenger ship.
Modified regulations for voyage of not more than thirty days'
Regulations for Voyages of not more than Thirty Days' Duration,
47. All ships clearing out or proceeding to sea on voyages of not more than thirty days' duration shall be subject to the modified regulations contained in the Ninth Schedule to this Ordinance, which as regards such ships shall be substituted for those contained in Schedule A of the Act, but nothing in this section shall be deemed to relieve Chinese passenger ships from the operation of the Act, except so far as the same is by the said Schedule expressly modified.
Ninth Schedule.
not more than thirty days'
48. The voyages specified in the Tenth Schedule to this Ordinance are hereby declared to be voyages of not more than thirty days' duration, subject, as regards steamers, to the conditions as to their rate of speed and, as regards sailing vessels, to the conditions as to the periods of the year during which the voyage is performed, in the said Schedule respectively expressed and contained.
49. Sections 47 and 48 shall not be construed as affecting any Chinese passenger ship which is about to proceed to sea on a voyage of not more than seven days' duration.
Depôts for Emigrants under Contract of Service.
Saving as to voyages of not more than seven days' duration.
Provision of depôts for lodging of emigrants under contract of service.
50.---(1.) The owners or charterers of every Chinese passenger ship which is about to convey emigrants under contracts of service shall, as soon as such ship is laid on for the conveyance of such emigrants, provide depôts, to be approved of by the Emigration Officer, wherein every intending emigrant by such ship may lodge as hereinafter provided,
(2.) Every such depôt shall be maintained, and every emigrant lodging therein shall be supported, at the expense of such owners or charterers.