Passage broker. 1855, s. 66.

Passage brokers to

enter into bond aud

obtain licence. 1855, s. 66.

passenger (q) or other person and the master (r), charterer, or owner (s) of any such ship, or his agent, or any passage broker (t).

Passage Brokers (u).

341.-(1.) Any person (r) who sells or lets or agrees to sell or let, or is anywise concerned in the sale or letting of steerage passages (y) in any ship proceeding from the British Islands (2) to any place out of Europe not within the Mediterranean Sea shall for the purposes of this Part of this Act be a passage broker.

(2.) The acts and defaults of any person acting under the authority, or as an agent, of a passage broker (a), shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be also the acts and defaults of the passage broker.

342. (1.) A person (r) shall not act directly or indirectly as a passage broker (a), unless he

(a.) has entered, with two good and sufficient sureties approved by the emigration officer (b) nearest to his place of business, into a joint and several bond (c) to the Crown, in the sum of one thousand pounds; and (b.) holds a licence (d) for the time being in force to act as passage broker (a).

(2.) The bond shall be renewed on each occasion of obtaining a licence, and shall not be liable to stamp duty; it shall be executed in duplicate, and one part shall be deposited at the office of the Board of Trade, and the other part with the said emigration officer (b).

(3.) The emigration officer (b) may, in lieu of two securities, accept the bond of any guarantee society approved by the Treasury.

(4.) There shall be exempted from this section—

(a.) the Board of Trade, and any person contracting
with them or acting under their authority; and
(b.) any passage broker's agent duly appointed under
this Act (c).

(5.) If any person (d) fails (e) to comply with any requirement of this section, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds (ƒ).

343.-(1.) Application for a licence to act as passage Granting broker shall be made to the licensing authority (g) for the place in which the applicant has his place of business. (2.) The licensing authority (g), upon the applicant proving to their satisfaction that he

(a.) has entered into and deposited one part of such bond as is required by this Act (h); and

(b.) has given to the Board of Trade at least fourteen days' clear notice (i) of his intention to apply for a licence,

may grant the licence (i), and shall forthwith send to the Board of Trade notice of such grant (i).

(3.) The licensing authority shall be—

(a.) in the administrative county of London the justices of the peace at petty sessions;

(b.) elsewhere in England, the council of a county borough or county district;

(c.) in Scotland, the sheriff; and

(d.) in Ireland, the justices in petty sessions.

of licences to passage brokers. 1855, s. 67. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73,

8. 27.

344.-(1.) A passage broker's (k) licence (h) shall, unless Forfeiture forfeited, remain in force until the thirty-first day of of licence. 1855, 8. 67. December in the year in which it is granted, and for thirty-one days afterwards.

(2.) Any court (1), when convicting a passage broker (k) of an offence under this Part of this Act or of any breach or

Passage

broker's agents.

1855, ss. 66, 69.

List of agents and

runners to be ex

brokers, and sent

to emigration officers. 1855, s. 81.

non-performance of the requirements thereof, may order that his licence be forfeited (m), and the same shall be forfeited accordingly.

(3.) The court shall forthwith send to the Board of Trade a notice of any such order.

345.—(1.) A passage broker (n) shall not employ as an agent in his business of passage broker (n) any person who does not hold from him an appointment (m), signed by the passage broker (n), and countersigned by the emigration officer (o) at the port (p) nearest to the place of business of the passage broker.

(2.) Every such agent shall, upon request, produce his appointment to any emigration officer (o), or to any person treating for a steerage passage (4) under this Part of this Act.

(3.) If any person () acts in contravention of this section he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds (s).

346.-(1.) A passage broker (n) shall keep exhibited in some conspicuous place in his office or place of business a correct list, in legible characters, containing the names hibited by and addresses in full of every person for the time being authorized to act as his agent (t) or as an emigrant runner (u) for him, and shall on or before the fifth day, or, if that day be a Sunday, on or before the fourth day in every month, transmit a true copy of that list, signed by him, to the emigration officer (o) nearest to his place of business, and shall report to that emigration officer (0) every discharge or fresh engagement of an agent (t) or of an emigrant runner (u) within twenty-four hours of the same taking place.

(2.) If a passage broker (n) fails (x) to comply with any

requirement of this section he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds (y).

Emigrant Runners (z).

347. If any person other than a licensed passage Emigrant broker (a) or his bonâ fide salaried clerk, in or within five runner. 1855, s. 3. miles of the outer boundaries of any port (b), for hire or reward or the expectation thereof directly or indirectly conducts, solicits, influences, or recommends any intending emigrant (c) to or on behalf of any passage broker (a), or any owner (d), charterer, or master (b) of a ship, or any keeper of a lodging-house, tavern or shop, or any moneychanger or other dealer or chapman, for any purpose connected with the preparations or arrangements for a passage, or gives or pretends to give to any intending emigrant («) any information or assistance in any way relating to emigration, that person shall for the purposes of this Part of this Act be an emigrant runner.

runner's

75-78.

348.-(1.) 348. (1.) The licensing authority (e) for passage Emigrant brokers (a) for the place in which a person wishes to act as licence. an emigrant runner (ƒ), and to carry on his business, may, 1855, 88. upon his application and on the recommendation in 56 & 57 writing of an emigration officer (g), or of the chief constable Vict. c. 73, or other head officer of police in such place (but not otherwise), grant, if they think fit, to the applicant a licence (h) to act as emigrant runner (ƒ).

(2.) The emigrant runner (ƒ) shall, within forty-eight hours after his licence is granted lodge the same with the nearest emigration officer (g), and that officer shall

(a.) register the name and abode of the emigrant runner (f) in a book to be kept for the purpose, and number each name in arithmetical order; and

(y) Procedure, §§ 356, 357.

(z) For application, see Preliminary Note to this Part, and § 365. (a) § 341, s. 1.

(b) Defined, § 742.

(c) Not defined in the Act; would include any person proposing to travel as a passenger on an emigrant ship. See § 268, s. 1.

(d) Note to § 58.
(e) § 343, s. 3.
(ƒ) § 347.

(g) § 355. He is protected by the Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893; see § 358 of this Act.

(h) Form, see § 360, and Schedule XIV. form 10.

8. 27.

Renewal

1855, s. 79.

(b.) upon receipt of a fee, not exceeding seven shillings, supply to the emigrant runner (i) a badge of such form and description as the Board of Trade approve, but in case of a renewed licence, the officer need only note the renewal and its date in his registry book against the original entry of the emigrant runner's name.

(3.) An emigrant runner's (i) licence shall remain in force until the thirty-first day of December in the year in which it is granted, unless sooner revoked by any justice for any offence against this Act or for any other misconduct committed by the holder of such licence, or unless forfeited under the provisions herein-after contained.

(4.) When an emigrant runner (i) changes his abode, the emigration officer (k) shall register the change in his registry book.

349. Where an emigrant runner (i), either satisfies the of badge emigration officer () for the port (1) in which he is licensed (m) to act that his badge (n) is lost, or delivers his badge up to such officer in a mutilated or defaced state, and in either case pays such officer five shillings, the officer may, if he thinks fit, supply him with a new badge. 350. (1.) A person shall not

Penalties

on persons acting without

licence or badge, using

badge not lawfully issued, or employing unlicensed

person.

1855, ss. 75, 78.

(a.) act as an emigrant runner (i) without being duly licensed (m) and registered; or

(b.) retain or use any emigrant runner's (n) badge not issued to him in manner by this Act required; or

(c.) counterfeit or forge any emigrant runner's badge (n);

or

(d.) employ as an emigrant runner (i) any person not duly licensed or registered (o).

(2.) If any person (p) acts in contravention of this section, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds (q).

(i) § 347.

(k) § 355. He is protected by the Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893; see § 358 of this Act.

(1) Defined, § 742.

(m) § 318, s. 1.

(n) § 348, s. 2.
(9) § 348.

(p) Includes corporations; Int. Act, 1889, §§ 2, 19.

(1) Procedure, §§ 356, 357.