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[Subsection (6) provides that a seaman who has been imprisoned at the instance of his Consul may be handed over to the Consul before the expiration of his term of imprisonment. (This enables the Consul to send the seaman away in another ship if opportunity recurs.)
Section 10 is an arrangement with slight modifications of parts of the old sections (a synopsis).
Subsections (8), (23), and (24) are, however, new, being taken from the English Act of 1894.
Section 11 reproduces a portion of the old Section 5; subsection (2), however, giving the Harbour Master power to refuse a clearance is new.
Section 12 is the old Section 6, with some amendments which have been found to be necessary; for example, subsections (1) and (2) include every ship and not merely ships carrying more than 12 passengers; these amendments were rendered necessary by the difficulty...