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Penalty for contraven- tion of section 6.
Penalties: fraudulent use of certificate;
counterfeit- ing certificate;
use of spurious certificate;
fraudulent inducement to emigrate;
false repre- sentation as to emigrant.
Penalty for improperly obtaining emigrant.
[cf. No. 3 of 1890, s. 85.]
No. 30 of 1915.
ASIATIC EMIGRATION.
49. The master of any ship failing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of section 6 shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
[ss. 50 and 51, rep. No. 21 of 1922.]
52. Every person who ---
(1) makes or attempts to make any fraudulent use of a certificate granted under the provisions of this Ordinance;
or
(2) forges, counterfeits, alters, or erases the whole or any part thereof; or
(3) uses or attempts to use any spurious or fraudulent certificate, and every person aiding and abetting in such offence; or
(4) by any fraud or false representation as to the size of a ship or otherwise or by any false pretence whatsoever induces any person to engage a passage in any emigrant ship; or
(5) falsely represents any assisted emigrant to be a non-assisted emigrant,
shall be liable upon conviction either summarily or on indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year and to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
53. Every person who-
(1) unlawfully, either by force or fraud, takes away or detains against his will any person with intent to put him on board any emigrant ship; or,
(2) with any such intent, receives, or harbours, or enters into any contract for foreign service with any person so taken away or detained,
shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.