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Employment of photographers.
Personation of emigrant.
Notice of intended fitting out of emigrant ship.
Report of arrival of emigrant ship.
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No. 1 of 1889.
CHINESE EMIGRATION.
In the case of male emigrants under the age of 16 years and of all female emigrants, the photographs and the other particulars specified in this section shall be furnished to the Registrar General by the passage broker who has contracted to provide the passage.
64. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to employ a certain number of fit and respectable photographers to furnish the photographs required by section 33.
65. Every person who falsely and deceitfully personates, or aids and abets in falsely and deceitfully personating, an emigrant or intending emigrant at any attendance before or examination by the Emigration Officer or the Registrar General, required by any law or regulation for the time being in force relating to Chinese emigration, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 months.
PART II.
EMIGRATION FROM PORTS OUT OF THE COLONY.
66. Before beginning to fit out any ship intended to be used for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants to be embarked at any port or place out of the Colony, a notice to that effect shall be given in writing to the Emigration Officer, and such notice shall be signed by the owner and master of such ship, or, in the event of the owner not being resident within the Colony, by the agent and master thereof; and in case such notice is not given, the owner and master, or the agent and master, of such ship, as the case may be, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance: Provided always that where there is no agent of an absent owner in the Colony, the notice may be signed by the master alone.
67. The master of every ship arriving within the waters of the Colony and which is fitted out for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants shall, within 24 hours, report the same to the Emigration Officer; and in case he neglects to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence.
* As amended by No. 4 of 1908.
As amended by No. 30 of 1911. As amended by No. 62 of 1911.