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No. 30 of 1915.
Power to Governor in Council to exempt wholly or partly from Part III approved assisted emigrants.
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Power to Governor to appoint medical officers.
No ship to proceed to sea without medical health.
ASIATIC EMIGRATION.
PART III.
PROVISIONS RELATING TO EMIGRANTS.
23. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to exempt from all or any of the provisions of this Part such, or such class or party of, assisted emigrants and upon such conditions and for such period as may be in the opinion of the Governor in Council desirable.
(a) Medical inspection.
24. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint any duly qualified persons as medical officers for the purposes of the Act and of this Ordinance.
25. No emigrant ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any voyage, until a duly appointed medical officer shall have certified to the Emigration Officer, and such Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied, that none of the emigrants, passengers or crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other persons about to proceed in such ship.
Medical inspection: where and when held.
Medical inspection of assisted emigrants.
Time for medical inspection after embarkation.
Fees of medical officer.
26. A medical inspection of the emigrants, passengers and crew for the purposes of giving such certificate shall take place either on board such ship, or, in the case of emigrants, at the discretion of the Emigration Officer, at such time and on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint.
27. A medical inspection of assisted emigrants shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the ship after embarkation and the Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.
28. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarkation in any emigrant ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration Officer may appoint.
29. Any medical officer appointed under the provisions of this Ordinance for the inspection of intending emigrants and the supervision of matters and things relating to the comfort
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924,
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