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TTIC.O. 882
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portation,
how dis-
posed of.
Redemption
residence.
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shall, until his embarkation, be detained at the Cen- tral Police Station of Port Louis.
CHAPTER X.
INDUSTRIAL RESIDENCE,
138. Any new immigrant who, upon the expiration of industrial or other determination of any contract of service under which he has been engaged, shall be desirous of redeeming the remainder of his industrial residence, may do so by payment to the Protector of Immi- grants, or to any other officer duly appointed to receive the same, of a sum calculated at the rate of 21. 88. per annum for the whole time required to com- plete his industrial residence; and thereupon he shall be entitled to receivè a ticket of old immigrant.
Redemption money to be received
only from
Provided that for every fraction of a shilling calculated as payable in respect of redemption money, one shilling shall be charged.
139. No redemption money shall be received from any new immigrant under the provisions of the pre- ceding article, except upon production by him of his immigrants ticket and other documentary proof showing that he engagement. is free from engagement.
free from
Discharge from con-
tract of ser-
vice.
Exemption
from con- tract of service.
Redemption money, to whom pay-
able.
140. Any servant having good and sufficient reason, of a special and exceptional nature, for desiring to obtain his discharge from any contract of service under which he is engaged, may apply to the stipen- diary magistrate of the district in which he is per- forming such contract, stating the reasons for which he is desirous of obtaining such discharge, and the magistrate shall thereupon give notice to the em- ployer, and shall appoint a day for inquiring into the matter, and for hearing any evidence which the immigrant or his employer may respectively adduce.
The magistrate shall transmit to the Procureur General the proceedings upon such inquiry; and, in case the Procureur General shall be satisfied that good and sufficient reasons have as aforesaid been shown for granting such discharge, he may authorise the magistrate to grant the same upon previous payment of indemnity by the immigrant to Government for the benefit of the employer.
Such indemnity shall be calculated upon the sum paid by the employer for costs of introduction, as certified by the Protector, or for the stamp duty upon engagement of such immigrant, as the case may be, and shall be proportionate to the unexpired term of service relatively with the whole term as stipulated in the contract.
141. The Governor may, upon the certificate of the Protector of Immigrants, or of a stipendiary magistrate, exempt, wholly or in part, from the obligation of industrial residence, any new immigrant incapacitated from labour by infirmity, accident, sickness, or other cause, and not being at the time of such exemption under contract of service with any employer.
The Governor may further grant to any such immigrant a free passage back to India.
Every such exemption shall be registered in the Protector's Office.
142. When any new immigrant shall be entitled to redeem the remainder of his industrial residence,
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the redemption money which he shall have to pay shall be received by the chief clerk of the stipendiary magistrate's office, if it be in Port Louis, or by the district cashier if it be in a rural district; and an acquittance in the form of the Schedule No. 29 hereto annexed shall thereupon be delivered to such immi- grant; upon presentation of which in the Immigration Office he shall be entitled to receive an old immi- grant's ticket.
able on con-
143. No stamp duty or other impost is chargeable No stamp by or on behalf of Government in respect of passing duty charge- any contract of service entered into between any tracts new immigrant, and—
Ist. The requisitionist at whose expense such requisitionist immigrant shall have been introduced into the and substi- Colony, or those in his rights;
between
tuted am-
2nd. The substituted employer of such immigrant, immigrants.
or those in his rights.
ployer and
on contracts
144. Saving in the above cases, all contracts of Stamp duty service entered into with new immigrants before a of service. stipendiary magistrate shall be subject to a stamp duty at the rate of 21. 88. per annum, payable by the employer for the term of the engagement, or for so much thereof as may be requisite for the comple- tion of the immigrant's industrial residence.
145. When any new immigrant engaged under a No stamp contract of service for which the proper duty has been duty pay- paid shall, before the expiration of the time speci- tain cases.
fied in the said contract, agree to annul such con- tract, and to enter into a new engagement with the same employer for a period comprehending any portion of the time embraced by such previous con- tract, no stamp duty' shall be paid upon such new engagement so far as it relates to the aforesaid portion of time, but the new engagement shall never- theless be charged with the duty applicable to the additional or extended period of employment.
able in cer-
Provisions
cases where
146. Provided that nothing in article 145 con- of preceding tained shall be held to extend to cases in which the article not to first engagement was broken by the stipendiary apply to magistrate having jurisdiction therein, on account of contract has any act of misconduct or breach of contract by either bean can- of the parties thereto.
celled by ma- gistrate.
147. In all cases in which stamp duty shall be Amount of chargeable on the engagement of a new immigrant redemption discharged from a previous contract, the stipendiary money and magistrate before whom he shall be discharged shail stamp duty distinctly endorse upon the immigrant's ticket the to be on- amount chargeable on the said immigrant's subse- dored on quent engagement, and the name and residence of A the party to whom such stamp duty or any redemp. tion money shall be due.
ticket.
148. The stamp duty chargeable on contracts of Stamp duty new immigrants shall be received by the chief clerk on contract, of the stipendiary magistrate in Port Louis, and by received. the district cashier in each of the rural districts.
by whom
149. In case any contract of service between a Forfeiture of new immigrant and any of the employers mentioned stamp duty in article 140, or any employer who shall have by employer. engaged such immigrant for the unexpired residue of his industrial residence, shall have been cancelled by
a stipendiary magistrate, upon the complaint of the immigrant, under the provisions of any law in force
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