ORDINANCE No. 6 of 1867.
Emigration.
16. The owners or charterers of any Chinese passenger ship and any emigration broker and any intending emigrant by a Chinese passenger ship and any master, passage or other person in charge of a Chinese passenger ship who shall fail to comply with or commit any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance or any regulations and bye-laws to be framed under this Ordinance in pursuance of sections 6 and 18 so far as they may respectively be bound thereby, and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged certificate, permit, notice, or other document under this Ordinance shall, without prejudice to any other proceeding civil or criminal, be liable upon summary conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding $500 or to imprisonment with or without hard labor for any term not exceeding six months.
17. No Chinese passenger ship bound to any port westward of the Cape of Good Hope shall be permitted to clear from any port in the Colony between the months of May and September inclusive.
18. The Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and revoke any bye-laws for regulating the fees payable on account of medical inspection and supervision under the "Chinese Passenger's Act 1855" and may also make, alter, and revoke any bye-laws and regulations for giving effect to this or any other Ordinance of the Colony in force for the time being relating to Chinese passenger ships, and generally for better carrying into effect the provisions and objects of the said Act and Ordinances respectively.
19. For the purpose of this Ordinance, the forms prescribed by section 4 of the "Chinese Passenger Act 1855" and contained in schedules B and C of the said Act may be varied by the emigration officer with the approval of the Governor in Council, and the said forms so varied as aforesaid may be substituted in lieu thereof.
20. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea without strictly conforming with the regulations contained in schedule A of the "Chinese Passenger's Act 1855" except so far as the said regulations are modified or altered by any of the provisions of this Ordinance or may be inconsistent therewith; and except as aforesaid, the said regulations shall be and continue in full force and effect.
21. This Ordinance shall not extend to any steam vessel regularly employed in the conveyance of the public mails under a contract with the Government of the State or Colony to which such steam vessel may belong.
22. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor.
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Punishment of persons committing any breach of this Ordinance.
No Chinese passenger ship to clear between May and September.
The Governor in Council may make by-laws.
Forms in schedules of "Chinese Passenger Act 1855" may be varied.
Regulations of schedule A of "Chinese Passenger Act 1855" to be in force except as altered by this Ordinance.
Ordinance not to extend to mail steamers.
Suspending clause.
[Not disallowed but never proclaimed, see C.O.D. No. 117, 23rd September, 1867.
Repealed by Ordinance No. 12 of 1868.]