Section 6. Whenever the Governor General of India in Council or the Local Government has reason to believe that

6. Whenever the Governor General of India in Council or the Local Government has reason to believe that in any place to which emigration is lawful, the plague or other infectious disease dangerous to human life has broken out, or that proper measures have not been taken for the protection of emigrants immediately upon their arrival in such place or during their residence therein, or for their safe return to India, or to provide a return-passage to India for any such emigrants at or about the time at which they are entitled to such return-passage, the said Governor General in Council or the Local Government may, by notification published in the Gazette of India or the local Gazette (as the case may be), declare that emigration from British India or from the territories subject to the Local Government (as the case may be) to such place shall cease and be prohibited from a certain day to be specified in the notification. anything contained in the said Act No. XIII of 1864, section sixty-three, or in any rules made or to be made by the Governor General of India in Council pursuant thereto, the Local Government may, in cases of emergency, permit any vessel carrying emigrants to leave the port of Calcutta, although the proportion of women embarked on board such vessel is not in accordance with the said rules.