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Power to revoke and cancel licence.
Application of penalty for breach of this Ordinance recoverable under the "Chinese Passengers Act, 1855"
Power to exempt certain vessels from the operation of this Ordinance.
Regulations of: schedule 4 of "Chinese Passengers Act, 1855," not to be affected by this Ordinance.
Suspending clause.
ORDINANCE No. 4 of 1870.
Chinese Emigration.
9. In any of the following cases, namely:-
1st. If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council at any time before the departure of a Chinese passenger ship that the particulars furnished in relation thereto under section 4 are untrue, or that any condition of the said licence has been violated;
2nd. If any Chinese passenger ship shall fail to clear out and proceed to sea, within the period specified in the licence granted under this Ordinance, or within such extended period as aforesaid;
3rd. If the owners or charterers of a Chinese passenger ship shall fail forthwith to appoint a master, mate or other officer to be approved as aforesaid, in the place of any master, mate or other officer discharged under section 7;
It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke the licence granted under this Ordinance in respect of such Chinese passenger ship, and to order that the said ship be seized and detained until the said licence and the certificate of the emigration officer, (if already granted) be delivered up to be cancelled.
10. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, to apply the whole or any part of the penalty recoverable in case of the non-observance or non-performance of the regulations of this Ordinance under the provisions of section 4 of the "Chinese Passengers Act, 1855," towards the expenses of reconveying to their homes intending emigrants by any vessel in respect of which the licence granted under this Ordinance shall have been revoked in manner hereinbefore provided.
11. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to exempt from the operation of this Ordinance, any mail steamers or other vessels which are subject to the provisions of the "Chinese Passengers Act, 1855," provided that the Chinese passengers proceeding in such vessels be free emigrants and under no contract of service whatever.
12. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect the regulations contained in schedule A of the "Chinese Passengers Act, 1855" which shall be and continue in full force and effect as provided by section 17 of the "Hongkong Emigration Ordinance, 1868"
13. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation hereof shall have been proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor.
[Confirmation proclaimed 24th August, 1870. Repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1874; see also Ordinance No. 3 of 1874 and No. 8 of 1871, section 5.]