A.D. 1889.]
CHINESE EMIGRATION.
Personation.
[No. 1.
607
for person.
65. Every person who falsely and deceitfully personates, or aids and abets in falsely 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 law or regulation for the time being in force relating to Chinese emigration, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months, or to both.
PART II.
EMIGRATION FROM PORTS OUT OF THE COLONY.
Emigrant Ship Fittings.
Notice to Emigration Officer of intended fitting out of emigrant ship.
66. Before beginning to fit out any ship intended to be used for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants to be embarked at any port or place out of the Colony, a notice to that effect shall be given in writing to the Emigration Officer, and such notice shall be signed by the owner and master of such ship, or, in the event of the owner not being resident within the Colony, by the agent and master thereof; and in case such notice is not given, the owner and master, or the agent and master, of such ship, as the case may be, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance: Provided always that where there is no agent of an absent owner in the Colony, the notice may be signed by the master alone.
67. The master of every ship arriving within the waters of the Colony and which is fitted out for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants shall, within twenty-four hours, report the same to the Emigration Officer; and in case he neglects to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
68.--(1.) The fittings of every ship mentioned in sections 58 and 59 shall be subject to the approval of the Emigration Officer, who is hereby empowered, at all reasonable times, to go on board and search and inspect such ship and her fittings and to order any fittings which in his opinion are objectionable to be forthwith removed.
(2.) Every person who in any way impedes or attempts to impede the Emigration Officer in the execution of this duty shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
69.--(1.) No such ship shall clear out or proceed to sea until the master thereof has received from the Emigration Officer a certificate in the form in the Eleventh Schedule to this Ordinance.
Report to Emigration Officer of arrival of ship.
Powers and duties of Emigration Officer as to fittings.
Certificate of Emigration Officer. Eleventh Schedule.
(2.) Every such certificate shall be liable to a stamp duty of twenty-
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A.D. 1889.]
CHINESE EMIGRATION.
Personation.
[No. 1.
607
for person.
65. Every person who falsely and deceitfully personates, or aids and Punishment. abets in falsely and deceitfully personating, an emigrant or intending emigrant at any attendance before or examination by the Emigration emigrant. Officer or the Registrar General, required by any law or regulation for the time being in force relating to Chinese emigration, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate. be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months, or to both.
PART II.
EMIGRATION FROM PORTS OUT OF THE COLONY,
Emigrant Ship Fittings.
Notice to
Emigration
intended fitting out of emigrant
66. Before beginning to fit out any ship intended to be used for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants to be embarked at any port or place out of the Colony, a notice to that effect shall be given in writing to the Emigration Officer, and such notice shall be signed by the owner and master of such ship, or, in the event of the owner not being resident ship. within the Colony, by the agent and master thereof; and in case such notice is not given, the owner and master, or the agent and muster, of such ship, as the case may be, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance: Provided always that where there is no agent of an absent owner in the Colony, the notice may be signed by the master alone.
67. The master of every ship arriving within the waters of the Colony and which is fitted out for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants shall, within twenty-four hours, report the same to the Emigration Officer; and in case he neglects to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance,
68.--(1.) The fittings of every ship mentioned in sections 58 and 59 shall be subject to the approval of the Emigration Officer, who is hereby empowered, at all reasonable times, to go on board and search and inspect such ship and her fittings and to order any fittings which in his opinion are objectionable to be forthwith removed.
(2.) Every person who in any way impedes or attempts to impede the Emigration Officer in the execution of this duty shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
69.--(1.) No such ship shall clear out or proceed to sea until the master thereof has received from the Emigration Officer a certificate in the form in the Eleventh Schedule to this Ordinance.
Report to
migration arrival of ship.
Officer of
emigrant
Powers and
duties of
Emigration Officer as to
fittings.
Certificate of Emigration Officer. Eleventh
Schedule.
(2.) Every such certificate shall be liable to a stamp duty of twenty-
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