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ASIATIC EMIGRATION.

No. 30 of 1915.

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been duly complied with, and the costs and charges of obtaining [Fourth such assistance and advice shall be defrayed by the owners Schedule charterers of the ship, whether the Emigration Officer grants his contd.]

certificate or not.

or

12. The Governor in Council shall from time to time fix a reason. Fees of able scale of fees and charges, to be approved by one of His Majesty's professional Principal Secretaries of State, for the remuneration of any profes- persons

employed. sional persons who may be employed under regulation 11 of these regulations, and pending the approval or disapproval of such scale the fees and charges therein specified shall be payable as if the same had been approved in manner aforesaid.

Officer.

13. The owners or charterers of every ship shall pay such fees Fees of for the remuneration of the Emigration Officer as may from time to Emigration time be ordered under instructions from one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and until and subject to such instructions the following fees shall be payable in addition to all fees and charges payable under regulation 12 of these regulations-

upon every application for a certificate

$25:

Provided that for an Emigration Officer's certificate delivered at a second port on the same voyage for a ship which has already received a certificate at the first port the fee shall be only $12.50: Provided also always that no fees be payable to the Emigration Officer of this Colony, but in lieu thereof the following stamp duties are hereby imposed that is to say—

1.

upon every application for a certificate under regulation 2, a stamp duty of

$ 1

2.

upon every certificate granted under regulation 1, a stamp duty of

$

and any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to stamps shall Ordinance be read as if the stamp duties hereby imposed were inserted in the No. 8 of Schedule thereof.

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payment of

14. In case default is made by the owners or charterers of the Power to ship in the payment of any fees, costs or charges to which they may detain ship be liable under the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, and these for non- regulations, the ship may be detained by the British consul, or if in

fees, etc. this Colony by the Governor, until such fees, costs and charges shall have been paid.

15. The Emigration Officer may withhold his certificate or revoke Withholding the same at any time before the departure of the ship if it appears to of certificate, his satisfaction that any particulars contained in the application in etc., in case writing which has been made for the same, or any other particulars of false which may have been furnished to him by or on behalf of the owners, furnished. charterers or master. of the ship in relation thereto, are untrue, or

particulars