ASIATIC EMIGRATION.

No. 30 of 1915.

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48. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of Penalty for any regulation contained in the Schedules to this Ordinance tion of shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

regulations.

49. The master of any ship failing or neglecting to comply Penalty for with the provisions of section 6 shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to section 6. imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

[ss. 50 and 51, rep. No. 21 of 1922.]

52. Every person who—

Penalties: fraudulent

use of

(1) makes or attempts to make any fraudulent use of a certificate; certificate granted under the provisions of this Ordinance; or

(2) forges, counterfeits, alters or erases the whole or any counter- part thereof; or

feiting certificate;

(3) uses or attempts to use any spurious or fraudulent use of certificate, and every person aiding and abetting in such offence; certificate;

spurious

or

(4) by any fraud or false representation as to the size of a ship or otherwise or by any false pretence whatsoever induces inducement 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.

to emigrate;

false repre- sentation as to emigrant.

53. Every person who-

Penalty for improperly

(1) unlawfully, either by force or fraud, takes away detains against his will any person with intent to put him board any emigrant ship; or

or

obtaining emigrant.

[cf. No. 41 of 1932, s. 8.]

(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.

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