CHINESE EMIGRATION.
No. 1 of 1889.
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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,
deliver tickets to passengers.
(1) in the case of every male passenger who is an assisted emigrant or under the age of 16 years, and of every female contract 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.
Provided that whenever it may appear desirable the Governor-in-Council shall have power to direct that the provisions of sub-section (2) may be dispensed with in the case of passengers travelling to any British Possession.
34. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, after it is issued, or shall induce any person to part with, or render useless, or destroy, any such contract ticket, during the continuance of the contract which it is intended to evidence.
Prohibition of alteration of contract ticket.
35. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any person, whether a licensed broker or not, receive money for or on account of the passage of any passenger on board a Chinese passenger ship, act as agent, without having a written authority to act as such agent, or, on the demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his licence and such written authority.
* As amended by No. 4 of 1908.
† As amended by No. 62 of 1911.