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No. 1 of 1889.
Medical inspection after embarkation.
Chinese practitioner may be surgeon.
CHINESE EMIGRATION:
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.
45. Any Chinese medical practitioner, properly qualified to the satisfaction of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, 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.
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Modified regulations for voyage of not more than 30 days.
Provision of depôts for lodging of emigrants under contract of service.
Emigrant to reside in depôt.
Regulations for voyages of not more than 30 days duration.
47. All Chinese passenger ships clearing out or proceeding to sea on voyages of more than 7 and not more than 30 days duration shall be subject to the modified regulations contained in the 9th schedule, which as regards such ships shall be substituted for those contained in schedule 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.
[ss. 48, 49, rep. No. 62 of 1911.]
Depôts for 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.
51. In the discretion of the Governor, every intending emigrant by such Chinese passenger ship shall reside in such depôt 3 clear days at least previously to his embarkation.
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* As amended by No. 51 of 1911.
† As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 63 of 1911.
‡ As amended by No. 19 of 1911, No. 62 of 1911 and No. 63 of 1911.
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