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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 67. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 7th March, 1912 :-
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A BILL
ENTITLED
as
An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Law
relating to "Chinese Passenger Ships defined by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, and concerning Asiatic Emigrants generally.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
Short title.
Interpreta- tion of
terms
PART I.
Preliminary Provisions,
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Asiatic Emi- gration Ordinance, 1912.
2. In this Ordinance-
"The Act"
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1855:
menus the Chinese Passengers Act,
•Ship" includes all sea-going vessels:
"
Emigration Officer' as regards this Colony means the Harbour Master and includes any person duly authorised to perform or assist in perform- ing his duties and as regards other places in- cludes every person lawfully acting as Emigra- tion Officer, Immigration Agent or Protector of Emigrants and every person authorised by the Governor of any British Colony to carry out the provisions of the Act:
Emigrant Ship" includes every ship carrying from any port in the Colony more than twenty passengers being natives of Asia:
British Emigrant Ship" includes every British ship carrying from any port in China or within one hundred miles of the coast thereof more than twenty passengers being natives of Asia :
Assisted Emigrant " means any male labourer being a native of Asia who intends to labour for hire in some place beyond the limits of this Colony and has received assistanco in the way of payment of passage money, subsistence or otherwise to enable him to carry out his intention:
Contract Emigrant" means any person engaged under the provisions of section 28 of this Ordinance :
Free Asiatic Emigrant" means an emigrant, being a native of Asia, who is not an assisted emigrant or under any Contract of service
whatever :
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