CAP. 198]
Originally
7 of 1874. Fraser
1 of 1874.
Short title.
Interpretation.
Powers as to recruiting individuals.
Power as to recruiting
generally.
Punishment
of offences.
Foreign Recruiting.
CHAPTER 198.
FOREIGN RECRUITING.
To control recruiting for the service of foreign states.
[16th November, 1874.]
WHEREAS it is expedient that the Governor should exercise full control over recruiting in this Colony for the service of foreign states:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign Recruiting Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance, "foreign state" includes any person exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in or over any country, colony, province, or people beyond the limits of this Colony.
3. If any person is, within this Colony, obtaining or attempting to obtain recruits for the service of, or for service in, any foreign state in any capacity, the Governor may, by order, either prohibit such person from so doing or permit him to do so subject to any conditions which he thinks fit to impose.
4. The Governor may by general order notified in the Gazette, either prohibit recruiting for the service of any foreign state or impose upon such recruiting any conditions which he thinks fit.
5. Any person who, in violation of the prohibition of the Governor or of any condition subject to which permission to recruit may have been accorded—
(a) induces or attempts to induce any person to accept or agree to accept, or to proceed to any place with a view to obtaining, any commission or employment in the service of any foreign state; or
(b) knowingly aids in the engagement of any person so induced, by forwarding or conveying him or by advancing money or in any other way whatever, shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years, and to a fine of such amount as the court thinks fit.
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