A.D. 1889.]
CHINESE EMIGRATION.
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and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged certificate, permit, notice, or other document under this Ordinance shall, without prejudice to any other proceeding, civil or criminal, be liable, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months.
Emigration Boarding-houses.
Prohibition of Chinese embarking otherwise than from licensed boarding-house.
58. No Chinese passenger shall, without the sanction of the Emigration Officer, be permitted to embark in this Colony (other than as a first or second class passenger) in any Chinese passenger ship on a voyage of more than seven days' duration unless he has been lodged in a boarding-house licensed under this Ordinance during a period of not less than forty-eight hours previous to the examination by the Emigration Officer or Registrar General: Provided, nevertheless, that the provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of a Chinese female when the Registrar General certifies that he is satisfied that such lodging at a boarding-house as aforesaid may be dispensed with.
59.—(1.) It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to license a sufficient number of fit and proper persons to keep boarding-houses for Chinese emigrants or intending Chinese emigrants.
(2.) Every such licence shall be granted for such period, not exceeding twelve months, and on payment of such fee, and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by any by-laws to be made under the next succeeding section.
(3.) Every boarding-house keeper licensed under this Ordinance shall enter into a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the Registrar General, for the due observance of such terms and conditions.
Licensing of boarding-houses.
Power to make by-laws for boarding-houses.
Vide Byelaws of 15.8.1902 and 23.11.1902
60.—(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to make by-laws for the licensing, regulation, and sanitary maintenance of such boarding-houses, and by such by-laws to require such register or other books to be kept as he may deem expedient, with regard to Chinese emigrants or intended emigrants.
(2.) All such by-laws, when made, shall be published in The Gazette, and, when so published, shall be as valid and binding as if contained in this Ordinance.
(3.) Every person who commits a breach of any by-law made under this section shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
61.—(1.) In the case of every Chinese male inmate of a boarding-house under the age of sixteen years and in the case of every Chinese female inmate...
No person shall keep a Boarding House for Chinese emigrants unless he shall have obtained a license.
Furnishing return of particulars of inmates.
Vide GG. No. 1136 of 29 July 1908