Imbecile Persons (Introduction).
CHAPTER 78.
IMBECILE PERSONS (INTRODUCTION).
[CAP. 78
To provide for the recovery of charges incurred on account originally of imbecile persons introduced into the Colony.
[26th February, 1904.]
1 of 1904. Fraser
1 of 1904.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Imbecile Persons (Introduction) Ordinance.
Short title.
2. In this Ordinance-
"person" means any passenger by any vessel, and also any member of the crew of any vessel, and includes all other persons on board and belonging in any capacity to any vessel;
"vessel" includes any ship or boat, or any other description of vessel used in navigation, British or foreign.
Interpretation.
3. (1) The owner, charterer, agent, consignee and master of every vessel from which is landed without permission from the Director of Medical and Health Services or Health Officer of the Port any person not ordinarily resident in the Colony who, being at the time of landing lunatic, idiotic or imbecile, becomes within a period of three months from the date of landing a charge upon the public or upon any public institution, shall be liable to repay to the Government any expense on account of such person by reason of his care, maintenance or repatriation, unless such owner, charterer, agent, consignee or master can prove that such person became lunatic, idiotic or imbecile after embarkation at the port or place from which he shipped: Provided that such expense shall in no case exceed the sum of five thousand dollars in the aggregate.
charterer, etc., liable in certain cases for expenses incurred by Government on account of person becoming a charge on the public.
(2) In every case where permission to land any person from any vessel is refused every such person shall be detained by the master on board such vessel and shall be prevented, by force if need be, from landing.
Master to detain persons on board in certain cases.
(3) In every case in which permission to land from any vessel is refused the officer refusing shall give a certificate of such refusal to the master of such vessel if so required by him.
Certificate of refusal of permission to land.
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