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Credit: [Public health enactments, 1903-1926]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![POWPI'S of spai'cli. Imniigi'ants not indebted for passage money tn 1)(> released. Ininiisrrant brought to Federated ilalay States by fraud. Immigi-ant indebted to be detained in depot. Proviso. Ininiigrant unlit for labour. liis passage money and as to any advances that may have been received by him and as to any engagement to repay such passage money and advances, or any engagement to labour entered into, or proposed to be entered into, by him, and as to his age and fitness to kbour, and as to any such other matters as may seem necessary for the purposes of this Enactment or The Women and Girls Protection Enactment, 1914. 21. If the Protector has reason to believe that any immigrant who has arrived in the Federated Malay States by an immigrant sliip is indebted for passage money and advances and has without permission from an officer of the Chinese Protectorate entered any place other than a depot established under Chapter III, it shall be'lawful for the Protector or any officer of the Chinese Protectorate authorised in writing by him to search any place (including any house or ship) in which such immigrant as aforesaid is believed to be, and if he is found to take him forthwith to an examination depot for examination under the last preceding section. If in the course of such search any documents relating to the indebtedness of such immigrant are found by the Protector or such officer he may seize such documents and retain them in his ]:)ossession for so long as they are required for the.purpose of any proceeding arising out of the matter. 22. Every immigrant who u^^ou such examination as aforesaid is found not to be indebted for passsage money and advances shall forth- with be allowed to leave the examination depot. 23. Wlien it ajppears upon such examination as aforesaid that an immigrant has been brought to the Federated Malay States by fraud or by misi-epresentation as to work or wages or other matters, the Protector shall enquire into his case and, if satisfied that he has just cause of complaint, shall either release him or treat him under section 25 as an immigrant who has been declared permanently unfit fen- labour in the Federated Malay States. 24. Every immigrant found to be indebted for passage money and advances may be detained in a detention depot until he has made arrangements satisfactory to the Protector for the payment of his debt: provided that no immigrant without his consent to be signified before the Protector shall be so detained at any time after sucli debt shall have been paid or for a longer period than ten days except as provided by section 30. 25. (i) When upon an examination made under the provisions of this Chapter or at any time before he has made arrangements satisfactory to the Protector for the payment of his debt any indebted immigrant appears to the Protector to be unfit for labour owing to disease or from physical or mental debility or defect, or to be suifering from any complaint, he may be sent to a Government hospital for medical examination and treatment and shall, except as provided in sub-section (iii), be detained there at the expense of his creditor till declared by the Government Medical Officer in charge of the hospital (a) to be fit for labour, or to be fit for certain kinds of labour, or for labour in certain places, in which case he shall be handed over to the Protector, or to a person authorised by the Protector to receive him, and may then be detained in a depot under the care of the Protector as provided by this Chapter; or](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21359040_0106.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
