CHINESE EMIGRATION.
No. 1 of 1889.
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houses and to assisted emigrants; and every person who commits a breach of any such by-law shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars.
61.—(1) In the case of every assisted emigrant who is an inmate of a boarding-house who has declared to the keeper thereof his intention of emigrating, such keeper shall supply the Registrar General with a return giving the number, names, and descriptions of all such assisted emigrants, the name of the Chinese passenger ship by which they intend to proceed, and such further particulars concerning the said assisted emigrants as the Registrar General may direct before embarkation.
(2) Such return must be supplied at least 24 hours before the examination by the Registrar General and shall be in such form as he may direct.
62. (1) The keeper of any boarding-house who knowingly furnishes any false or incorrect return or other particulars required by the last section, or who obtains or attempts to obtain by fraud, fraudulent intimidation, or force, the shipment of any Chinese emigrant or intending emigrant, and every person who aids or abets such keeper in so doing, shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.
(2) Any such keeper and his sureties shall also be liable to the enforcement of his and their bond, and the licence of such keeper may be suspended by the Registrar General.
63. The keeper of every licensed boarding house from which any assisted emigrant is to be shipped shall attend at the Registrar General's Office or other place appointed for that purpose at the examination to be held by the Registrar General, and shall then furnish the Registrar General with two copies of the photograph of every such emigrant, with the names, ages and number of the said emigrants, the name of the ship by which they are going, and the date, entered on the back, as well as a list of such intending emigrants, setting forth the names, sex, ages, destination, occupation, and such other particulars as may be required by the Registrar General.
* As amended by No. 4 of 1908 and No. 63 of 1911.
As amended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 62 of 1911, No. 63 of 1911 and No. 21 of 1912.
As amended by No. 4 of 1908 and No. 50 of 1911.
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