1064 [ 1 OF 1889. ) CHINESE EMIGRATION CONSOLIDATION .
coast thereof, on any voyage or voyages to any other port or
ports for the purpose of commencing at or from any such port
or ports as last aforesaid a voyage of more than seven days'
duration shall be deemed to have cleared out or proceeded to
sea upon the said last mentioned voyage from the said first
mentioned port within the meaning of “ The Chinese Passengers
Act, 1855.
Definition of
voyage of 30
4. Voyage of not more than 30 days' duration sball mean
days. and include any voyage which in pursuance of the 3rd section
(No. 1 of
1878 s. 2. ] of " The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855,” is for the time being
declared to be a voyage of not more than thirty days' duration.
PART I.
REGULATIONS UNDER “ THE CHINESE PASSENGERS Act."
Notice of ship 5. The owners or charterers of every Chinese passenger ship
laid on
as aChinese proceeding on a voyage of more than seven days duration or if
passenger
ship to be
absent from the Colony their respective agents, shall as soon as
given to such ship is laid on for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants
Emigration
Officer. give notice in writing of the fact to the emigration officer
[ No. 5 of
1874 8. 4.]
specifying in such notice the name, destination and probable
( No. 25 of
time of departure of such ship, and in all cases where such
1889. ] intending emigrants are under contracts of service, of the depôt
or depôts in which such intending emigrants are lodging or
intended to be lodged before embarkation.
No Chinese
passenger
6. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to
ship to sea on a voyage ofmore than seven days' duration and the emigra
proceed to tion officer shall not grant the certificate prescribed by section
sea without
licence from a 4 of " The Chinese Passengers Act 1855 ," unless the master
theGovernor. of such ship shall be provided with a licence under the hand of
[ Ord. 5 of
1876 s. 2. ) the Governor and the public seal of the Colony, or under the
[ See No. 25 hand and seal of an emigration officer, to be obtained in manner
of 1889. ] hereinafter mentioned .
Time and 7. Whenever any Chinese passenger ship is about to proceed
mode ofappli- to sea upon any voyage of more than seven days' duration, the
licence in the owners or charterers of such ship, or, if absent from the Colony ,
Colony.
[ Ibid. sec. 2 their respective agents , shall, before such ship is laid on for the
subs. 2.] conveyance of Chinese emigrants , and before any depôt is opened
for their reception, apply in writing to the Colonial Secretary
for a licence under the hand of the Governor and the public
seal of the Colony for the conveyance of such emigrants and
[ No. 25 of
1889.) shall furnish all particularsaccording to the form in schedule A
hereto as to the destination of the said ship and as to all other
matters relating to the intended voyage and emigration which
may be required of them .