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No. 30 of 1915.
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ASIATIC EMIGRATION.
[Fourth Schedule, Appendix contd.]
(8) that none of the said emigrants is under any contract of service whatever, and that no fraud appears to have been practised in collecting such emigrants;
(9) that the intending emigrants who are males under the age of sixteen years or females have been passed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs; and
(10) that the master of the ship is to put into water and fresh vegetables.
for
Dated the
day of
19
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(Signed) A.B.,
Emigration Officer at the port of
Prohibition of ship departing without certificate.
Accommodation of emigrants.
FIFTH SCHEDULE.
(s. 22 (2).]
REGULATIONS RESPECTING SHIPS UNDER SPECIAL LICENCE
ON SHORT VOYAGES.
1. No ship licensed under special licence under the provisions of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, shall clear out or proceed to sea until the master thereof has received from the Emigration Officer a copy of these regulations, and a certificate in the form contained in the First Schedule to the said Ordinance, which copy and certificate, with any documents to be attached thereto, shall be signed by the Emigration Officer, nor until the master has, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the Emigration Officer, entered into a joint and several bond in the sum of one thousand pounds to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in the form contained in the Second Schedule to the said Ordinance.
2. The following conditions as to the accommodation of emigrants shall be observed―
(1) the space appropriated to the emigrants between decks shall be properly ventilated and shall contain at the least 9 superficial and 54 cubic feet of space for every adult emigrant on board, that is to say, for every emigrant above 12 years of age and for every 2 emigrants between 1 and 12 years of age; the height between decks shall be at least 6 feet;
(2) the accommodation for female emigrants between decks shall be separate from that provided for male emigrants;
(3) a space of 4 superficial feet per adult shall be left clear on the upper deck for the use of emigrants; and
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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