Section 101. Power for Governor General in Council to determine probable lengths of voyages for purposes of Act

101. Power for Governor General in Council to determine probable lengths of voyages for purposes of Act. 102. Emigration to Straits Settlements and adjoining Native States. 101. (1) The Governor Generd in Council may, from time to time, by notific,ation in the Gazette `of` Iwdia, determine what shall be held to be; for the - purposes of this Act, the probable length of the voyages by sailing-vessels and vessels using steam-power, respectively, from any port from which, to auy country to which, emigration is for the time being lawful. Pomer for Governor General in Council to probable lellg-ths of v O ~ w s for purposes or A C ~ . lawful. - (8) Until otherwiee dctcrmined under this section, thc probable length of the voyage by sailing-vessels - from the ports mentioned in the third sohedule hereto annexed, to the countries mentioned in that schedule, shall be deemed to be the lengths stated in that schedule. 102. (1) The Governor General in Council may, by notification in the Gaxefte `of` India, extend the Straits Emigration to Settlements Straits Settlements Emigration Act, 1817, to the whole or any part of British India. (2) The Governor General in Council may dso, from time to time, by a like notification, declare that all or any of the protected Native States adjoining the Straits Settlements shall, for the purposes of any law relating to emigration to those settlements, form part of those settlements. (3) On and from the date of any notification published under sub-section (2), a Native of India who departs by sea out of British India under an agreement to labour for hire `in` the Native State or States to which the notification refers shall not be deemed to emigrate within the meaning of this Act.