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The Indian Emigration Act 1908 (XVII of 1908)

1908

(1) The Protector of Emigrants at each of the ports from which emigration is lawful shall on the application of the Emigration Agent for any country to which emigration is lawful grant licenses to so many fit persons as to the Protector seems necessary to be recruiters of emigrants within the area to which the authority of the Protector extends. [...] (2) The Medical Inspector may if he thinks fit order the removal of any emigrant so suffering to a proper hospital for treatment at the expense of the Emigration Agent ; and the expense (if any) incurred by the Protector of Emigrants in respect of the removal of the emigrant end his treatment in the hospital shall he recoverable from the Emigration Agent by the Protector of Emigrants with inter [...] (2) Any emigrant who has been registered at any place beyond the limits of the port of embarkation and who from his state of health is in the opinion of the Medical Inspector of Emigrants unfit to undertake at once the return journey to the place at which he was registered shall be entitled to be fed lodged clothed and attended to at the depot at the expense of the Emigration Agent until he [...] If it appears that during the journey to the depot any emigrant has suffered any ill-treatment or that in the case of any emigrant who has been regitered at a place beyond the limits of the port of ebarkation the provisions of section 43 have not been complied with the Protector of Emigrants may order the Emigration Agent to pay— (a) to the emigrant a reasonable sum by way of compensatio [...] (1) On failure of the Emigration Agent for twenty-four hours to comply with an order of the Protector for the payment of any sum to an emigrant under any of the last three foregoing sections the Protector may pay the same to the emigrant.
law
Pages
69
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141338
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-7 unknown view
Chapter I. Preliminary
7-8 unknown view
Chapter II. Ports from which and Countries to which Emigration is Lawful
9-11 unknown view
Chapter III. Emigration Agents
11-12 unknown view
Chapter IV. Protectors of Emigrants and Medical Inspectors
12-13 unknown view
Chapter V. Recruiters
13-16 unknown view
Chapter VI. Registration of Emigrants and Execution of Agreements to Emigrate
16-20 unknown view
Chapter VII. Emigration Depots
20-22 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Conveyance of Emigrants to Depots and Procedure on Arrival
22-26 unknown view
Chapter IX. Emigrant-Vessels
26-29 unknown view
Chapter X. Embarkation and Departure
29-34 unknown view
Chapter XI. Departure of Natives of India by Sea out of India for certain Purposes
34-37 unknown view
Chapter XII. Rules
37-40 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Offences
40-47 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Supplemental
47-50 unknown view
Chapter XV. Savings and Repeals
50-50 unknown view
Schedule
50-54 unknown view

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