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[s. 324 conta]
Expenses of rescue and conveyance
COLONIAL PROVISIONS OF
to be carried in tanks and casks for the steerage passengers under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act; and
(v) for requiring duly authorised medical practitioners to be carried in emigrant ships where they would not otherwise under this Part of this Act be required to be carried.
Powers of Governor in regard to wrecked passengers.
M. S. ACT, 1894, (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60 ss. 332-334).
332. If any passenger, whether a cabin or a steerage passenger, is either taken off any ship which is carrying any steerage passenger on a voyage from any part of Her Majesty's dominions and is damaged, wrecked, sunk, or otherwise destroyed, or if any such passenger is picked up at sea from any boat, raft, or otherwise, it shall be lawful-
(a) if the port to which such passenger (in this Act referred to as a "wrecked passenger") is conveyed is in the United Kingdom, for a Secretary of State; and
(b) if the port is in a British possession for the Governor of that possession, or any person authorised by him for the purpose; and
(c) if the port is elsewhere, for the British consular officer there; to defray all or part of the expenses thereby incurred.
333.--(1) If any passenger, whether a cabin or a steerage passenger of any ship which is carrying any steerage passenger on a voyage from any port in Her Majesty's dominions finds himself without any neglect or default of his own at any port outside the British Islands other than the port for which the ship was originally bound, or at which he, or the Board of Trade, or any public officer or other person on his behalf, has contracted that he should land, it shall be lawful-
(a) if the place is in a British possession, for the Governor of that possession, or any person authorised by the Governor for the purpose; and
(b) if the place is elsewhere, for the British consular officer there; to forward the passenger to his intended destination, unless the master of the ship, within 48 hours of the arrival of the passenger, gives to the Governor or consular officer, as the case may be, a written undertaking to forward or convey within 6 weeks thereafter the passenger to his original destination, and forwards or conveys him accordingly within that period.
42; A passenger so forwarded by or by the authority of a Governor or a British consular officer shall not be entitled under this Part [Part III] of this Act to the return of his passage money, or to any compensation for loss of passage.