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12th November,1923.
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No women except the undermentioned to be permitted to board ships in the harbour without a permit in writing from the Harbour Master under a penalty of 25 dollars or one month H.L,
Exempted persons :-
Wives or families of the Master and Officers of the ship.
Bona fide passengers and their friends
at the time of arrival or departure.
The Master or other officer for the time being in charge be held responsible under the Same penalty as, if this is not done, it will be next to impossible for the police to enforce any regulations that might be passed.
In order to make the proposed regulations effective if would be necessary to provide as follows :-
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Make it an offence for any woman to be on board a ship in the harbour unless she is either
(1) An "exempted person", or
(2) Has a permit.
(b) Place with every woman charged with being un-
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It was pointed out that unless the fresh legislation proposed made it an offence for a woman to be on board ship in harbour un- less she was an "exempted person" the Police would have no power to act, so we feel it would be useless to leave the matter to the police unless the suggested legislation is enacted.
8. With regard to the point that arrangement for the granting of permits would prove "too vexatious", would it be possible to indicate to the Committee that this regulation is at present in force in the Port of Colombo and has not proved unduly vexatious. The consequences of such occurrences as quoted in evidence to the Committee that of 10 infected women visiting the crew of an incoming ship, would surely have such serious conquences to the wives and families in this country of the men who are infected, to warrant even a certain amount of "irritation and annoyance", that would, it is recognised, be inevitable on the initiation of new regulations, but would very soon be adopted as part of the ordinary routine of port administration.
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