147
11
امر
$14
Punishment
for person- ation of emigrant.
§52
Fenalty for furnishing false return.
frandulest shipment,
etc.
§5361
353(2
General penalty.
524.
Application
of penalty
nance
10
53. Every person who falsely and deceitfully personates, or uids and abets in falsely nud deceitfully persouating, an emigrant or intending enigrant at any attendance before or examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or an Emigration Öffeer, required by this or any other enactment for the time being in force relating to Asiatic n misdemeanor, and emigration, shall be guilty of
shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprison. ment for any term not exceeding six months,
54.-(1) Evory person who commits any contravention of any rule made under the provisions of section 43 of this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fiue not exceeding one hundred dollars in respect of such contravention.
(2.) The keeper of any hotel or boarding-house who knowingly furnishes any false or incorrect return or other particulars required of him, or who obtains or attempts to obtain by fraud, intimidation, or force, the shipment of any Asiatic emigrant or intending emigrant, and every person who aids or abets such keeper in so doing, shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a peualty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not excceding one year.
(3.) Any such keeper and his sureties shall also be liable to the enforcement of his and their bond, and the licence of such keeper may be suspended or cancelled by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
55. The owners or charterers of any emigrant ship or British emigrant ship and any emigration passage broker, and any intending emigrant by any such ship, and any master or other person in charge of any such ship who fails to comply with or commits any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance so far as they may respectively be bound thereby, and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged certificate, permit, notice, or other document under this Ordinance shall, without prejudice to any other proceeding, civil or criminal, be liable, on summary con- vietion, to a fiue not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
PART V.
Miscellaneous.
56. it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Comucil to apply the whole or any part of the penalties recoverable for breach of under section 5 of the Act for the non-observance or non- the Ordi-
performance of the regulations made under this Ordinance or the Act towards the expenses of reconveying to their homes or transferring to another ship emigrauts who were intending to proceed in any vessel whose licence has been revoked in manner hereinbefore provided.
recoverable
ander the Act.
J'articulara nnder sec- tions 15, 16 or 17 may be required to be given
under oath.
Use of formis. Schedules.
Repeal
§ 56
57. Particulars or any of such required to be furnished under any of the provisions of sectious 15, 16 or 17 of this Ordinance shall, if so ordered by an Emigration Officer, be verified upon oath or declaration before an Emigration Officer or Justice of the Peace who are hereby authorized to administer such oath or declaration,
58. The forms in the Schedules to this Ordinance or forms to the like effect, with such variations and additions as circunstances may require, may be used for the purposes therein indicated and according to the directions therein contained, and instruments in those forms shall (as regards the form thereof) be valid and sufficient.
59. The following quactments are repealed:
Ordinance No. 1 of 1889.
No. 34 of 1902.
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No. 13 of 1904.
No. 4 of 1908.
Schedules.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE.
FORM OF EMIGRATION OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE
FOR SHIPS UNDER SPECIAL LICENCE.
I, A.B., Emigration Officer for
do hereby certify as follows:-
1. That the ship
A.B., master, is specially
licensed nuder the provisions of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 191
·
2. That the said ship is licensed to carry
adulta,
of whom none are to be under any contract of service whatever.
Dated this
day of
1
(Signed.)
Emigration Officer,
THE SECOND SCHEDULE.
FORM OF BOND TO BE GIVEN BY THE MASTER OF A SHIP HOLDING A SPECIAL LICENCE.
•
Know all men by these presents that we, A.B., of
and C.D., of
, are held and firmly bound tuto Our Sovereign Lord King George V in the sum of one thousand pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be paid into Our said Sovereign Lord the King, His Heirs and Successors; to which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves aul every of us jointly and severally for and in the whole, our lieirs, executors, and administrators, and every of them, firmly by these presents, sealed with our scale.
day of
1
Dated this
Now the condition of this obligation is that if (in res- pect of the ship
whereof
is master) all and every the requirements of the Chinese Passengers Act. 1855, and of the Asiatic Emigration Ordin- ance, 191, and of the regulations contained in the Schedules to the said Ordinanco shall be well and truly performed [in like manner as the same ought to be observed and performed in case the said ship were a British ship, and the said
wore a British subject] (a) then this obligation to be vold, otherwise to remain in full force and effect.
of
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above bounder
and
in the presence
(a) The words within brackets to be inserted only in the case of
a non-British ship.
THE THIRD SCHEDULE, PARTKULAKS REQUIRED ON APPLICATION FOR A LICENCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF
ASIATIC EMIGRANTS.
Name of Ship, Tonnage, How propelled.. Nationality of Ship
Destination of Ship......... Whether it is intended that the Ship should call or station at or near any Port or Place between...................... and .....
If so, at what Ports or Places
Section 4 (2).
Section 4 (3).
Sections 15,
16 and 17,
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