law
apply to ships
voyages of
" than seven days duration
will be
"such as to ensure that proper provision "will be made for the health and safety " of the passengers." It is, however, for the Secretary of State to decide whether the enforcement of such regulations likely to prove injurious to the interests of
British
shipping by causing Ohinese pasangers to prefer foreign vessels where greater laxity is likely to prevail.
Sr. W. Weigh Goodman.
ch
4
April, 1876.
IREC
C.C
10613
[PEG 16 MAY 96
Acts on the Chinese Passengers / Short Niter
Voyages / Ordinance, 1896.
Interpretation Clause (Section 2)
541
This follows, in the main, Section
1 of the Chinese Passengers Act 1855.
"
Emigration Officer " The second
paragraph in this definition is taken from Regulation 16 of Schedule (I) of
Ordinance/
of 1889 / Chinese
Consolidation).
clan w
of
Emigration
"Short Voyage". The different
mable less steigent
short
vajages
regulations to be made for river and
scouting voyages for example than for longer decan verjages.
Section 3.
This is modified from Secho.
of the Chriwe Passengers Act 1855 (18
4
and