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Punishment
of person committing breach of Part I, etc.
Assisted
emigrant to
boarding-house.
No. 1 of 1889.
CHINESE EMIGRATION.
57. The owners or charterers of any Chinese passenger ship, and any emigration passage broker, and any intending emigrant by a Chinese passenger ship, and any master or other person in charge of a Chinese passenger ship, who fails to comply with or commits any breach of the provisions of Part I, so far as they may respectively be bound thereby, 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, to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 months.
Emigration boarding-houses.
58. No assisted emigrant shall, without the sanction of the Registrar General, be permitted to embark in this Colony (other than as a 1st or 2nd class passenger) in any Chinese passenger ship on a voyage of more than 7 days duration unless he has been lodged in a boarding-house licensed under this Ordinance during a period of not less than 48 hours previous to the examination by the Registrar General.
Licensing of
boarding-
houses.
By-laws for boarding-houses.
59.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to license a sufficient number of fit and proper persons to keep Chinese hotels and boarding-houses for assisted emigrants.
(2) Every such licence shall be granted for such period, not exceeding 12 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 section.
(3) Every boarding-house keeper licensed under this Ordinance shall enter into a bond in the sum of 1,000 dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the Registrar General, for the due observance of such terms and conditions.
60. It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to make by-laws for the licensing, regulation, and sanitary maintenance of such Chinese hotels or 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 all visitors to Chinese hotels or boarding-houses.
* As amended by No. 30 of 1911 and No. 21 of 1912.
† As amended by No. 4 of 1908 and No. 62 of 1911.
‡ As amended by No. 4 of 1908 and No. 50 of 1911.
§ As amended by No. 4 of 1908, No. 51 of 1911, No. 62 of 1911, No. 63 of 1911 and No. 21 of 1912.