THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH FEBRUARY, 1898.
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contract has been
10. NO labourer shall be imported or brought into Western Australia unless a con- No labourer to be tract, as hereinafter provided for, shall have been previously entered into with such imported unless a labourer, and every person who shall cause a labourer to be brought or imported into the previously made. Colony contrary to this provision of this Act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 48 Vict., 25, s. 4. One hundred pounds for every labourer so brought or imported.
made.
11. EVERY such contract shall be entered into with the labourer, by the employer Place where such or his agent, at the port or place at which such labourer is shipped and previously to such contract shall be shipment; and every such contract shall be entered into before, and signed by, a British 7., s. 5. or Dutch authority, or the authority of a European Government designated by the Govern- or by a notice published in the Government Gazette, for the purpose of approving such contracts in the country where the contract is made.
12. THE contract shall be in the Form A in the Schedule hereto, or to the like effect, Requisites and form and shall be in writing, signed or marked by the employer or his agent and by the of such contract, labourer; and it shall specify the nature of the employment, the period of the service Ib., part s. 6. (which shall not exceed three years), the amount of wages, the times of payment thereof, and that rations be supplied, substantial, sufficient, and suitable for the labourer. The contract shall also contain stipulations by the employer that the labourer shall be provided with fit and proper lodging during the period of his engagement, and that he shall be returned to the port or place of his shipment, at the expense of the employer, at the end of the period of service; and that medical attendance shall be provided by the employer, at his expense, for the labourer, when practicable and necessary, unless the illness of the labourer shall have been caused by his own improper act or fault.
13. NO labourer shall be landed on his first arrival except at a port which is a regu- Place of landing. larly appointed seat of magistracy, or which has been notified by the Governor in the Ib., part s. 12. Government Gazette to be a place where labourers may be landed within the Colony under this Act.
labourers to be
14. THE master of every vessel which shall arrive at any port or place of landing List of imported within the Colony, having on board any labourer or labourers as aforesaid, shall, as soon given before land- as possible after arrival, and before any labourer is landed, give to the principal officer of ing. Customs or of Police, or other officer authorised by the Governor in that behalf, at or 1b., ss. 7 and 8 nearest to the said port or place of landing, a complete list of all such labourers, in the abridged. form or to the effect of the form marked B in the Schedule hereto, and containing the particulars therein set out.
15. (1.) THE master of every vessel arriving with labourers on board as aforesaid shall also, as soon as possible after arrival and before any labourer is landed, give to the officer aforesaid a medical certificate in respect of each of such labourers certifying as to his apparent age, and that he is free from disease and of a sound constitution, and, if he has been vaccinated, stating the fact.
Medical certificate
b., s. 10, with addition,
to be also given.
form of medical
certificate.
(2.) Such medical certificate may be in the Form C in the Schedule hereto, and may Requisites and be signed at the port or place of shipment of such labourer by a person authorised to practise as a physician or surgeon by any law in fores in any of Her Majesty's Dominions 16., 8. 11. or may be signed at the port or place of landing of such labourer by a Government medical officer.
with Magistrate an
16. EVERY person importing a labourer into Western Australia shall, before the Person importing landing of such labourer, sign and deposit with the Magistrate of the district in which labourer to deposit such labourer is to be landed an undertaking by himself, with two sureties to be approved undertaking to by the Magistrate, to the effect of the Form D of the Schedule hereto, for the payment of the expenses of returning such labourer to the port from which he embarked. No stamp duty shall be chargeable on such undertaking.
pay for labourer's
return.
to be delivered to
The Magistrate shall retain such undertaking, and shall give to the employer a Magistrate's receipt certificate of having received the same in the Form E in the Schedule hereto, and such officer of Customs. employer shall deliver the certificate to the officer of Customs at the port or place where the labourer is to be landed.
before delivery
arrested and sent
Every labourer who lands or is landed within the Colony before such certificate has Labourer landing been received by the officer of Customs, as hereby required, may be arrested, without of Magistrate's any other warrant than this Act, by any member of the police force, and taken on board receipt may be the vessel from which he has landed, or, if such vessel has put to sea, such labourer may back. be detained in custody until such certificate has been received as aforesaid; and if, after notice given by the officer of Customs to the employer of the landing of such labourer as aforesaid, such certificate is not so received within a reasonable time, the officer of Customs may send back the labourer to the port from which he was shipped, at the expense of, and without compensation to, the employer.
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