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No. 30 of 1915.
Prohibition of emigrant embarking otherwise than from licensed boarding-house.
Licensing of boarding-houses.
Power to make rules.
ASIATIC EMIGRATION.
and also to defray the cost of his maintenance whilst awaiting a return passage.
(2) All such expenses, with all legal costs incurred, shall be recoverable by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or Emigration Officer before any magistrate from the emigration passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
(c)-Provisions as to emigration boarding-houses.
42.-(1) No assisted emigrant shall, without the sanction of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, be permitted to embark in this Colony in any emigrant ship on any voyage unless he has been lodged in a boarding-house licensed under this Ordinance during a period of not less than forty-eight hours previous to the examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
(2) No person shall accommodate any assisted emigrant except in a boarding-house for assisted emigrants licensed under this Ordinance.
43. (1) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to license a sufficient number of fit and proper persons to keep boarding-houses for assisted emigrants.
(2) Every such licence shall be granted for such period not exceeding twelve months, and on payment of such fee and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by rules to be made under section 44.
(3) Every boarding-house keeper licensed under this Ordinance shall enter into a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, for the due observance of such terms and conditions.
44.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make rules for the licensing, regulation, and sanitary maintenance of such boarding-houses, and with regard to all persons residing therein, and by such rules to require such registers or other books to be kept as he may deem expedient.
(2) All such rules, when made, shall be published in the Gazette and, when so published, shall be as valid and binding as if contained in this Ordinance.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924. See s. 55 for penalty.