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Fraudulent

use of

-certificate.

Punishment

for impro- perly obtain- ing emigrant.

Punishment

for person- ation of emigrant.

Penalty for furnishing false return,

fraudulent shipment, etc.

General penalty.

Use of forms. Schedules.

Repeal.

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PART IV.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

50. Every person who-

(1.) makes or attempts to makes any fraudulent use of a certificate granted this Ordinance; or (2.) forges, counterfeits, alters, or erases the whole

or any part thereof; or

(3.) uses or attempts to use any spurious or fraudu- lent certificate, and every person aiding and abetting in such offence; or

(4.) commits any offence against the provisions of

section 43,

shall be liable on indictment or on summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year aud to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

51. Every person who---

(1.) unlawfully, either by force or fraud, takes away or detains against his will any emigrant with intent to put him on board any emigrant ship or British emigrant ship; or,

(2.) with any such intent, receives, harbours, or enters into any contract for foreign service with any such emigrant, knowing the same to have been by force or fraud taken and obtained as hereiubefore mentioued,

shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprison- ment for any term not exceeding seven years.

52. Every person who falsely and deceitfully personates, or aids and abets in falsley and deceitfully personating, an emigrant or intending emigrant at any attendance before or examination by the Emigration Officer or the Registrar General, required by any enactment for the time being in force relating to Asiatic emigration shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

53.-L.) 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 penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not - exceeding one year.

(2.) 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 by the Registrar General,

54. 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 aftering any forged certificate, permit, notice, or other document under this Ordinance shall, without prejudice to any other proceeding, civil or criminal, be fiable, on summary con- viction, to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

55. The forms in the Schedules to this Ordinance or forms to the like effect, with such variations and additions as circumstances may require, may be used for the purposes therein indiented and according to the directions therein contained, and instruments in those forms shall (as regards the form thereof) be valid and sufficient.

56. The following enactments are repealed :

Ordinance No. 1 of 1889.

No. 34 of 1902.

No. 13 of 1904.

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No. 4 of 1908.