[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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    person abetting an offence under this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding- fifty dollars or to iinprisounieut of either description for a term not exceeding seven days for each immigrant whose offence he has abetted. The master of a ship in which an immigrant shall embark in ordei- (o depart unlawfully from the Federated Malay States shall, until Ihe contrary be proved, be deemed to have abetted such offence. 53. In every judicial proceeding a certificate in form B in the Evidence of second schedide purport ing to be signed by an Emigration Com missioner enter into or Assistant Emigration Commissioner of the Grovernment of the contmct. Colony or of the Federated Malay States in India at the port of embarkation shall be deemed to be evidence that the persons named therein have respectively received a free passage from India under a promise to laboiu in the Colony of the Straits Settlements or in some country or State to which Indian emigration is authorised by the Govei-nor of the Straits Settlements, with the consent of the Grovernment of India, or in the Federated Malay States or in Johore, as the case may be. 54, (i) Every emiiloyer who within the Colony, the Federated ^Sg™^^^^^^ Malay States, or any other State of the Malay Peninsula under the incniiy enpnged. pi'otection of His Britannic Majesty engages an immigrant to labour on a place of employment within the Federated Malay States at any of the employments mentioned in section 122, or at any other work or labour declared under the provisions of the said section to be subject to the provisions of Part VI, shall ascertain the name and the particulars of the last employment of such labourer, and shall within seven days after the arrival of such labourer upon the said place of eni])loymeut present or forward to the Controller a statement in duplicate in the form in the third schedule together with a fee of one dollar in respect of each labourer named in such statement which shall be paid to the Indian Immigration Fiuid. A register of such statements shall be compiled by the Controller, and such register and statements shall be open to inspection at the office of the Controller by any person at all reasonable times. (ii) The Controller shall, if satisfied that the requirements of this section have been duly observed, issue to the employer a cei'tificate to the effect that in respect of the labourer so registered he is exemjjted from the payment of the fee prescribed by section 130. (iii) Any employer failing to present or forward a statement as Poimities. required by the provisions of sub-section (i) shall on the complaint of any other employer be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars in respect of every labourer whose name should have been included in such statement. (iv) Any employer knowingly furnishing any false particulars in a statement required by sub-section (i) shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars in respect of each labourer regarding whom lie shall be proved to have furnished such false particulars. (v) Any labourer furnishing false particulars to an employer for the purposes of a statement required by sub-section (i) shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars or to imprisonment fov a term not exceeding three months.