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Power of 276. In any and every case arising out of this intervention Ordinance, whether he shall have received a notice General and or not, and both before the Supreme Court or any stipendiary court, the Procureur General may inter- vene by any officer of his department, and the Pro- tector of Immigrants may likewise intervene, on giving notice to the Procureur General.

Protector legal assist-

ance.

Judgment not to be

quashed for

want of form.

Forms enac- ted in an-

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277. No judgment or order or other proceeding of any stipendiary magistrate shall be quashed or annul. led for want of form, or be impeached or affected by any mistake, defect, error, or omission in reasons of the same; provided such judgment, order, or other proceeding be in substance and effect in conformity with or according to the true intent and meaning of this Ordinance.

CHAPTER XVII.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

278. The Schedules hereunto annexed shall be read and construed as part of this Ordinance, and nexed Sche- the forms in the said Schedules enacted shall be used dule to be used. for and in respect of the several matters in this

Ordinance to which they relate.

alter forms.

Regulations. 279. The Governor in Executive Council may Power to the from time to time make regulations to carry out the Governor to provisions of this Ordinance, also to regulate the discipline of the Immigration Depot, the admission and detention of immigrants therein, and their dis- charge therefrom, also to frame or to alter the forms of contracts of service and discharge, of bonds, tickets, legal process, registers, and returns, and of all and every subject matter or thing arising out of this Ordinance.

Governor in Executive Council to amend

regu- lation.

Regulations to be laid on Council

The forms now used, when new forms are not enacted by this Ordinance, shall be employed until other forms are substituted in their stead by regula- tion as aforesaid.

Regulations now in force and not repealed by this Ordinance shall continue to be in force until revoked by the Governor in Executive Council.

280. The Governor in Executive Council may from time to time alter, amend, or revoke any regulation which is in force when this Ordinance comes into operation, or which may subsequently be framed under its provisions.

281. All regulations made by the Governor in Executive Council shall be laid on the table of the Council of Government, and shall have the force of have force of law as soon as they are promulgated in the Govern- ment Gazette, but shall be subject to disallowance

table and to

law as soon

as promulga- at any time by the Secretary of State, without pre- ted. judice to anything done thereunder previous to auch

disallowance.

Power to

Protector to

withbold

requisitions and remove

servants.

282. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Exo- cutive Council, on the report of the Protector of Immigrants, if the provisions of this Ordinance are neglected or disobeyed by any employer, and if such employer has within two years on account of such disobedience been more than twice convicted by the stipendiary magistrate, or the Supreme Court, to

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order the withholding of requisitions on account of such employer, or on behalf of the estate of such employer, and it shall further be lawful, under the like circumstances, for the Governor in Executive Council to remove servants from such estates.

ved until

283. Whenever any document requiring to have Signatures any official signature of any magistrate or public to be recei- officer under these regulations, or under any other proved false. law relative to immigration or to masters and ser- vants, shall purport ex facie to have such signature, it shall be received in all courts of justice as genuine without such signature requiring to be proved, and it shall continue to be so received until the said signature shall have been proved to be a forgery.

osses to be

284. Every manager of a plantation, estate, or Register of factory on which immigrants shall be indentured, kept by shall keep a register of all cases under this Ordi- manager. nance, in which he is concerned before the stipen. diary magistrate in the form in the Schedule No. 43 annexed.

Every manager of an estate, plantation, or factory on which any immigrant may be under contract of service shall keep registers in form and manner pro- vided in Schedules Nos. ¡44, 45, 46, and 47, which registers shall be at all times open to the inspection of the Protector of Immigrants, the inspectors of immigrants, and the medical attendant of the estate, and shall be produced in court if the presiding judge

or magistrate shall so require in all proceedings taken under this Ordinance.

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