LABOUR CONVENTION,
rate of wages and mode of payment, the rations, clothing, the grant of a free passage out, and where such is provided for therein, a free passage back to the port of embarkation in China for himself and family, right to free medical attendance and medicines, whether in the Colony or Protectorate or on the voyage from and to the port of embarkation in China, and any other advantages to which the emigrant shall be entitled. The indenture may also provide that the emigrant shall, if considered necessary by the medical authorities, be vaccinated on his arrival at the Depot, and, in the event of such vaccination being unsuccessful, revaccinated on board ship.
VIII. The indenture shall be signed, or in cases of illiteracy marked, by the emigrant after the Chinese manner, in the presence of the Chinese Inspector or his delegate and of the British Consular Officer or his delegate, who shall be responsible to their respective Governments for its provisions having been clearly and fully explained to the emigrant previous to signature. To each emigrant there shall be presented a copy of the indenture drawn up in Chinese and English. Such indenture shall not be considered as definitive or irrevocable until after the embarkation of the emigrant.
IX. In every British Colony or Protectorate to which indentured Chinese emigrants proceed, an officer or officers shall be appointed, for emigrant whose duty it shall be to insure that the emigrant shall have free access to the Courts of Justice to obtain the redress for injuries to his person and property which is secured to all persons, irrespective of race, by the local law.
X. During the sojourn of the emigrant in the Colony or Protectorate in which he is employed, all possible postal facilities shall be afforded to him for communicating with his native country, and for making remittances to his family.
XI. With regard to the repatriation of the emigrant and his family, whether on the expiration of the indenture or from any legal cause, or in the event of his having been invalided from sickness or disablement, it is understood that this shall always be to the port of shipment in China, and that in no case shall it take place by any other means than actual conveyance by ship, and payment of money to the returning emigrant in lieu of passage shall not be admissible.
XII. Nothing in any indenture framed under these Articles shall constitute on the part of the employer a right to transfer the emigrant to another employer of labour without the emigrant's free consent and the approval of his Consul or Vice-Consul; and should any such transfer or assignment take place, it shall not in any way invalidate any of the rights or privileges of the emigrant under the indenture.