CO129-573-3 Asiatic Emigration Amendment Ordinance 1938 20-4-1938 - 9-9-1938 — Page 11

Objects and Reasons.

1. The object of this amending Bill is to exclude the sick bay or hospital of emigrant ships licensed under the provisions of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, from the passenger deck space required to be measured for the purpose of determining the number of emigrants to be carried in such ships.

2. The amendment is necessary in order to allow for the proper segregation of sick emigrants, particularly those suffering from infectious or contagious disease, and to prevent the overcrowding which necessarily results under the existing law from such segregation.

3. Clause 2 of the Bill effects the amendment by substituting the words "shall not be included" for the words "shall be included" in the third line of regulation 4 (7) in the Fourth Schedule and the corresponding regulation in the Sixth Schedule to the principal Ordinance.

4. Clause 3 of the Bill is the suspending clause neces- sitated by the proviso to section 2 of the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict., c. 104).

J. A. FRASER,

March, 1938

Attorney General.

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