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No. 1 of 1889.
Fee for licence.
*
Duration of licence.
Contract ticket for passage to be given.
+
Production to Emigration Officer of certificate of chartering ship for carrying emigrants.
CHINESE EMIGRATION.
Officer, and the Emigration Officer is hereby authorised, if he thinks fit, to grant such licence according to the form in the 6th schedule. Provided always that no such licence shall be granted unless such bond as is mentioned in the last 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 authorised 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 7th schedule, 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.
29. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid shall pay to the Emigration Officer before it is issued a fee of 200 dollars.
30. Such licence shall, unless forfeited, continue in force until 31st December in the year in which it is granted, and for 14 days afterwards.
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 8th schedule, 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 authorised to receive
* As amended by No. 62 of 1911 and No. 63 of 1911.
+ As amended by No. 50 of 1911.
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