[Public health enactments, 1903-1926].

  • Federated Malay States
Date:
1903-1926
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Credit: [Public health enactments, 1903-1926]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    u-'VSd^u,. 39. Lvery «,rt.Iicate issued under this Chapter shall confctin the names ul the holder thereol and of his or her father, aud shall specify Jiis or lier plaee oi abode m India, age, sex, religion, caste (if any) and calling. A general description of the holder of such certificaU^ and of any marks on tlie portions of the l)ody ordinarily unclothed by which he or she may be iiiore certainly known shall als.. be written therein rhe cer ihcat^' shall be dated on the day of its issue and shall liave force until it be revoked by the Controller. hninip'i'i'nt' ^ i^ertificated immigrant shall, upon production of his certiti- IvStionT ^^e ^^i^lly exempted from every restriction imposed upon uMiicuons. ininugrauts by this Part. ^ l,roS^w\u'n 1=]- ^''^^y certificated immigrant shall be bound to produce his required. certihcate when required to do so by a Magistrate or police officer or by an officer of the Controller's Department or l)y the master or officer of a ship in which such certificated immigrant is, or proposes to be, a passenger ; and if he shall refuse or fail to do so when so required he may be treated in all respects as an uncertificated immigrant until such time as he shall produce such certificate. New ceriiificate. 42. A certificated immigrant whose certificate not having teen revoked has been lost or destroyed may apply to the Controller for a fresh certificate, aud the same shall be issued accordingly: provided that it shall be lawful for the Controller to require satisfactory evidence of such loss or destruction before issuing a new certificate. ' Special classe.s 43. The Chief Secretary to Government may from time to time, exempted. with the consent of the Government of India transmitted through the Government of the Straits Settlements, declare that any class of immi- grants is not a labouring class and that any person belonging thereto is entitled to a certificate without enquiry ; or that any class of immigrants is a labouring class and that persons belonging thereto are not entitled to certificates. SZiwranls • immigrants on arrival at the port of disembark- atiou shall be examined by the Health Officer or a Government Medical Officer ; unfit totoveP immigrant found on such examination to be unfit to travel may be sent forthwith to a Govern- ment hospital and there detained imtil he is pronounced by the Health Officer or Government Medical Officer in charge of such hospital to be either fit to travel or to be incurable or permanently unfit to labour; (c) When an immigrant sent to a Government hospital under this section is found to be fit to travel the Controller may, if the employer for whom such immigrant was recruited so desires, send him back to the place in India where he was recruited; {d) When an immigrant sent to a Government hospital under this section is found to be incurable or permanently unfit to labour the Controller may send him back to the place in India where he was recruited and may detain him so long ;is may be necessary for that purpose. fit to travel or iiicuralile.