Section 31. Liability of importers of Europeans or employers of soldiers becoming vagrants

31. Liability of importers of Europeans or employers of soldiers becoming vagrants. Recovery of charges. 31. Whenever any person of European extraction lands in India, or, being a Non-Commissioned Officer or Soldier in Her Majesty's Army, leaves that Army in India, under an engagement to serve any other person, or any Company, Association or body of persons in any capacity, and whenever a sailor of European extraction not being a British subject, is discharged from his ship in any British Indian port, and becomes chargeable to the State as a vagrant within one year after his arrival in India or leaving the Deprivation of privileges of European British subjects under Criminal Procedure Code. Liability of importers of Europeans or employers of soldiers becoming vagrants. the Army, or discharge from his ship, as the case may be, then the person, or Company, Association or body, to serve whom he has so landed in India or left the Army, or, in the case of a sailor, the person who is at the date of the discharge the owner or agent of the ship from which the sailor has been so discharged, shall be liable to pay to the Government the cost of his removal under this Act, and all other charges incurred by the State in consequence of his becoming a vagrant. Recovery of charges. Such costs and charges shall be recoverable by suit as if an express agreement to repay them had been entered into with the Secretary of State for India in Council, by the person, Company, Association, body, owner or agent chargeable. Liability of consignee in case of Europeans who arrive in charge of animals and become vagrants.