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Labourers not to
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH FEBRUARY, 1898.
be employed on any
fields township.
27. NO labourer brought into Western Australia under this Act, or the Act hereby mine or in any gold- repealed, shall be employed in any mining operation or work incidental thereto, or in con- nection therewith, or in any township in any goldfield. Every person employing any such labourer in contravention of this section shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than Ten nor exceeding Fifty pounds for every labourer so employed. Every labourer found so employed shall be liable to be dealt with, and the like consequences shall ensue, as if he had been found in this Colony without being under an unexpired con- tract of service made under this Act or under the Act hereby repealed.
Recovery of expenses.
Penalty for contra- vention of Act.
Contracts to be subject to the Masters and
Servants Act.
Ibid., s. 18.
Production of labourer when
required.
Ibid., s. 19,
Offences summarily punishable. Ibid, s. 20.
Forgery of contracts or medical certifi-
cates,
Ibid, s. 21.
Certain sections of 16 Vict., No. 11, incorporated. Ibid, s. 23.
Application of Act. See Ibid, s. 24.
Regulations.
28. ALL expenses of, and incidental to the arrest, detention, and return of any labourer, as aforesaid, may be recovered summarily from any person liable for the same under this Act, before any two Justices in Petty Sessions, by an officer of Customs or Police, under the provisions of the Ordinance passed in the fourteenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty and numbered five.
29. EVERY person guilty of any offence in contravention of this Act for which no penalty is herein specially provided shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding Twenty pounds.
30. ALL contracts under this Act are to be subject to the provisions of the Masters and Servants Act, 1892, and upon conviction of any labourer, or upon order made against any employer, under that Act, it shall be lawful for the convicting Magistrate, Justice, or Justices, to rescind the contract with such labourer; and such Magistrate, Justice, or Justices shall forthwith cause a note of such rescission to be transmitted to the Magistrate having custody of the book in which the said contract is registered, who shall cause a note of such rescission, with the date thereof, to be entered therein.
31. THE employer for the time being of any labourer within the Colony, when- ever requested thereto by any officer of Customs or of Police, or other officer having and producing a written authority signed by a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace, and autho- rising such officer to make the above request, shall, at the place of occupation of such labourer, produce such labourer to such officer, or to the said Magistrate or Justice, at all reasonable times. If any employer shall fail to produce a labourer when requested as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty of not less than Two pounds and not exceeding Ten pounds for every such default, unless he shall prove, to the satisfaction of the Magis- trate or Justice or Justices before whom the case shall be heard, that there was some reasonable ground or excuse for the non-production of such labourer as aforesaid.
32. ALL offences under this Act made punishable by any penalty shall be sum- marily punishable upon conviction before a Magistrate or a Justice or Justices of the Peace, according to the provisions of the Acts in that behalf.
33. EVERY person who shall forge, or alter, or who shall produce or make use of, knowing the same to be forged or altered with intent to defraud, any contract, under- taking, receipt, or inedical certificate as aforesaid, shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding five nor less than three years, or to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding two years.
34. SECTIONS A, E, G, and H, of the Shortening Ordinance, 1853, shall be incorporated with and taken to form part of this Act, to all intents and purposes, and in as full and ample a manner, as if the said sections had been introduced and fully set forth
in this Act.
35. THIS Act shall not apply (except in respect of vaccination) to any person brought into this Colony for employinent in the pearl-shell fishery or upon the Abrolhos Islands, and kept employed under contract in such fishery or upon such islands, or in temporary employment on shore, and only in that part of the coast of the Colony situate to the northward of the twenty-seventh parallel of south latitude, according and subject to the regulations authorised by the Acts in that behalf.
S6. THE Governor may from time to time make, alter, and repeal regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Act, and such regulations shall be published in the Government Gazette and shall be laid before the Parliament within fourteen days after such publication, if the Parliament is then sitting, and otherwise, within fourteen days of its next meeting, and when so published shall have the force of law and shall continue in force, unless altered or repealed as aforesaid, or disallowed by both Houses of Parliament.
In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to this Act.
GERARD SMITH, Governor.
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