ASIATIC EMIGRATION.
No. 30 of 1915.
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PART III.
PROVISIONS RELATING TO EMIGRANTS.
Council
23. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to Power to exempt from all or any of the provisions of this Part such, or Governor in such class or party of, assisted emigrants and upon such con- to exempt ditions 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.
wholly or partly from Part III approved assisted emigrants.
Power to Governor to
appoint medical officers.
No ship to proceed to
sea without
certificate
of health.
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 medical shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied, that none of the emigrants, passengers or crew appears, 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.
26. A medical inspection of the emigrants, passengers and Medical crew for the purposes of giving such certificate shall take place inspection:
where and either on board such ship or, in the case of emigrants, at the when held. discretion of the Emigration Officer, at such time and on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint.
of assisted
27. A medical inspection of assisted emigrants shall take Medical place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the ship inspection after embarkation and the Emigration Officer shall not grant his emigrants. certificate unless he is satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.
medical
28. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made Time for after their embarkation in any emigrant ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration Officer may appoint.
inspection after
embarkation
29. Any medical officer appointed under the provisions of Fees of this Ordinance for the inspection of intending emigrants and the medical
officer.