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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 3, 1931.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

Hong Kong.

No. 403.

Order made by the Governor in Council under section 29 of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, Ordinance No. 50 of 115, on the 29th day of June, 1931.

Whereas in the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, "The Act" means the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855:

And whereas sections 24 to 29 of the said Ordinance are as follows:

24. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint any duly qualified persons

as medical officers for the purposes of the Act and of this Ordinance. 25. No emigrant ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any voyage, until a duly appointed medical officer shall have certified to the Emigration Officer, and such Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied, that none of the emigrants, passengers or crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other persons about to proceed in such ship.

26. A medical inspection of the emigrants, passengers and crew for the purposes of giving such certificate shall take place either on board such ship, or, in the case of emigrants, at the discretion of the Emigration Officer, at such time and on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint.

27. A medical inspection of assisted emigrants shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the ship after embarkation and the Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.

28. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarkation in any emigrant ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration Officer may appoint.

29. Any medical officer appointed under the provisions of this Ordinance for the inspection of intending emigrants and the supervision of matters and things relating to the comfort and well-being of such emigrants before their departure and on their voyage, shall be entitled to charge and the master, owner or charterer of the ship carrying or about to carry emigrants in respect of which or whom such inspection or supervision is effected shall pay to such medical officer such fees as may from time to time be prescribed by the Governor in Council.

And whereas the Governor has appointed and may hereafter appoint duly qualified persons as medical officers for the purposes of the said Act and of the said Ordinance :

Now, therefore, the Governor in Council hereby prescribes the following fees for the medical inspection in this Colony of emigrants and crew: -

(a) in the case of emigrants whose port of departure is Hong Kong --

$1 per head, including vaccination;

(b) in the case of emigrants passing through Hong Kong from other ports--

50 cents per head, including vaccination, if considered necessary by any

medical officer appointed as aforesaid; and

(c) in the case of a crew—

50 cents per head.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

29th June, 1931.

N. L. SMITH,

Clerk of Councils.