Be it enacted by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of Saint Vincent as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Emigrants Short title. Protection Ordinance, 1924.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise Interpretation. requires, "Notified place" means any country or place named or specified by the Governor in any notice for the time being in force under section three of this Ordinance; "Recruiting agent " means any person who engages any other person in this Colony to proceed to a notified place under contract of service.

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3. It shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, Application of Ordinby notice in the Gazette, to declare any country or place country or place. out of His Majesty's Dominions to be a country or place

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to which this Ordinance shall apply, and in the same manner to revoke any such declaration relating to any notified country or place.

4. From and after the publication in the Gazette of permit prohibited. any notice under section three of this Ordinance, and so long thereafter as such notice remains unrevoked, no person shall proceed from this Colony to the country or place named in such notice without a permit granted under the provisions of this Ordinance: Provided that the Governorin-Council may, if he thinks fit, from time to time exempt any person or any class or description of persons from the obligation to obtain a permit.

Granting of permits

5. (1) On application in writing by a person desiring to leave this Colony for a notified place, a permit shall be granted to him by the Chief of Police or such person as the Governor may from time to time appoint for the purpose, provided that the applicant establishes to the satisfaction of the Chief of Police or of any person appointed as aforesaid

(a) that he is not a native of this Colony and has not been recruited by a recruiting agent; or, being a native of this Colony:

(i) that he has already made that notified place his temporary home; or

(ii) that he is carrying on business in that notified

place; or

(iii) that he is possessed of independent means sufficient to remove all risk of his having to be repatriated at any time at the cost of this Colony; or

(iv) that he has deposited in the Treasury such a sum to cover that risk as may be fixed by the Governor-in-Council under section seven hereinafter; or

() if he has been recruited by a recruiting agent, and whether he is a native of this Colony or not, that the agent has paid into the Treasury the sum fixed by the Governor-in-Council under