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No. 52.
Supplement to the Western Samoa Gazette-Published by Authority.
Tuesday, December 4.
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THE CHINESE FREE LABOUR ORDINANCE, 1923.
Western Samoa.
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No. 10, 1923.
Definition of Chinese Labourer or Labourer
Commissioner defined
Free labour conditions- meaning
Labourer not liable to
An Ordinance
made by the Administrator of the Territory of Western Samoa, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of that Territory, and in pursuance of the Samoa Act, 1921.
1. In this Ordinance the term "Chinese Labourer" or "Labourer" means and includes any Chinaman who has arrived or shall hereafter arrive in Western Samoa in pursuance of any agree- ment to serve as a labourer for any period or in pursuance of any scheme established by public authority for the provision of labourers for Western Samoa and their service for a term of years.
"Commissioner" means the person for the time being holding the office of Chinese Commissioner in Samoa.
"Free Labour Conditions" means the document-in the Chinese language-setting out the terms of employment of Chinese free labour in Western Samoa which has been presented to the Chinese labourers in Samoa for acceptance, and which with the signatures of the labourers who have accepted the same is preserved as a record by the Commissioner.
2. No labourer hereafter arriving in Western Samoa and not for breach of contract labourer remaining in Western Samoa after the expiry of the
criminal punishment