THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3, 1915.
34. Such licence shall continne in force until the 31st Duration of day of December in the year in which such licence is licence. granted, and for 14 days afterwards, unless sooner for- feited as hereinbefore mentioned.
contract
35. Every passage broker who contracts with any in Giving of tending emigrant for a passage in any ship shall forthwith notice of give notice in writing to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs with and to the Emigration Officer of every such contract, emigraut to specifying the name, age, and sex of such emigrant and Secretary the name of such ship.
for Chinese Affairs and Emigration Officer.
contract ticket for passage.
36.-(1.) Every passage broker who receives money Giving of from any emigrant for or in respect of a passage in any emigrant ship proceeding on any voyage shall give to such emigrant a passage ticket, under the hand of such passage broker and stamped with his seal or trade mark.
(2.) Every such ticket shall be printed in a plain and 19th legible type, according to the form in the 10th Schedule to Schedule. this Ordinance, and shall be accompanied with a translation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.
for Chinese
37. Every passage broker, before he receives or takes Production any money on account of any passage or for the sale to Secretary or letting of the whole or any part of the accommoda- Affairs of tion of or in any such ship, shall produce to the Se- certificate of cretary for Chinese Affairs the certificate of the master chartering or owner of the ship in respect of which a passage has ship for been taken or the accommodation in which has been so sold or let, to the effect that such ship has been chartered for the purpose of carrying emigrants, and that such pas- sage broker is authorized to receive payment for such passage or for the sale or letting of the accommodation in such ship; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
carrying emigrants.
33. Every passage broker who has engaged to provide Explanation an emigrant with a passage shall, either personally or by of passage his duly authorised representative, attend with such ticket to passenger at such place and time as may be appointed by emigrant. the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and in the presence of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or of such officer as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs may appoint the true intent and meaning of such passage ticket shall be ex- plained to such emigrant with the object of ascertaining that such emigrant understands where he is going and that such emigrant is not acting under compulsion and is not being influenced to emigrate by false represcutations.
(2.) In the absence of any appointment by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the said attendance, in the case of all female emigrants, and in the case of all male emigrants who either are assisted emigrants or appear to the Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs to be under the age of 16 years, shall take place at the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and in the case of all other emigrants shall take place on board the emigrant ship.
(2.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to direct that any of the provisions of this section may be dispensed with in the case of emigrants travelling to any British possession.
39. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be- Prohibition altered, rendered useless, or destroyed, after it is once issued, of alteration or shall fraudulently induce any person to part with, or of passage render useless, or destroy, any such passage ticket, until the termination of the passage which it is intended to evidence.
ticket.
40. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any Authority of person, whether a licensed broker or not, receive money passage for or on account of the passage of any emigrant on board broker to act an emigrant ship, without having a written authority to aet
as agent. as such agent, or, on the demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his licence aud such written autho- rity.
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