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No. 30 of 1915.
ASIATIC EMIGRATION.
Explanation of passage ticket to emigrant.
Prohibition of alteration of passage ticket.
Authority of passage broker to act as agent.
Power to land emigrant who is unwilling to leave port or letting of the accommodation in such ship; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
38.-(1) Every passage broker who has engaged to provide an emigrant with a passage shall, either personally or by his duly authorized representative, attend with such passenger at such place and time as may be appointed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and in the presence of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or of such officer as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs may appoint the true intent and meaning of such passage ticket shall be explained to such emigrant with the object of ascertaining that such emigrant understands where he is going and that such emigrant is not acting under compulsion and is not being influenced to emigrate by false representations.
(2) In the absence of any appointment by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs the said attendance in the case of all female emigrants, and in the case of all male emigrants who either are assisted emigrants or appear to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to be under the age of sixteen years, shall take place at the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and in the case of all other emigrants shall take place on board the emigrant ship.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to direct that any of the provisions of this section may be dispensed with in the case of emigrants travelling to any British possession.
39. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, rendered useless or destroyed, after it is once issued, or shall fraudulently induce any person to part with or render useless or destroy, any such passage ticket, until the termination of the passage which it is intended to evidence.
40. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any person whether a licensed broker or not, receive money for or on account of the passage of any emigrant on board an emigrant ship without having a written authority to act as such agent or, on the demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his licence and such written authority.
41. (1) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or the Emigration Officer, at any time when he is satisfied that any emigrant who is unwilling to leave port has been obtained by any fraud, violence or other improper means,