No. 5 of 1903.
No. 5 of 1903.
1633
No 312424
An Ordinance to provide for the more effectual prevention of frauds on owners and charterers of ships by stowaways, their aiders and abettors.
[Originally No. 5 of 1903.]
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
24th June, 1903.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Stowaways Ordinance, 1903.
[s. 2, rep. No. 12 of 1912.]
3. Every person found on board any ship with intent to obtain a passage therein without the consent of the owner, charterer, agent, master, or other person in charge thereof, and every person arriving in this Colony on board any ship to whom, without the consent of the owner, charterer, agent or master, or other person in charge thereof, has obtained a passage therein, and the aider and abettor of every such person, shall respectively upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and to imprisonment not exceeding nine months.
4. Every person so on board any such ship may be detained and may be handed over to the police and be taken without a warrant before a magistrate.
5. The onus of proving the required consent shall lie upon the accused.
No. 6 of 1903.
An Ordinance to give effect to an Order in Council of the 12th day of March, 1903, relating to the marriages of British subjects in foreign countries.
[Originally No. 6 of 1903.]
No. 7 of 1914.
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
[11th July, 1903.]
WHEREAS His Majesty the King, by virtue of the authority vested in him by the Foreign Marriage Act, 1892, and with the advice of His Privy Council, has been pleased, by an Order in Council dated the 12th day of March, 1903, to order that certain modifications of the requirements of the said Act as to residence and notice shall have effect in cases where one only of the parties has dwelt within the district of the marriage officer mentioned in the said Act and the other of such parties has dwelt in a Colony, provided that the law of such Colony shall give effect to such Order in Council; AND WHEREAS it is expedient to give effect within this Colony to such Order in Council;
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.