The Indian Emigration Act, 1883, 21 of 1883, (Rep., Act 17 of 1908) · XI — .

Section 80. Powe~ for Governor General in Council to make rules

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

CHAPTER XI. 80. Powe~ for Governor General in Council to make rules. 81;. Publication of drafts and rules. CHAPTER `XII.` OFFEKCES. (4) Every rule mad; under the last foregoing seetion shall be published in the Gazette of Ifidia, and the publication in the Gasette of Irzdia of a rule purporting to be made under that section s h l l be conclusive evidence that it has been duly made. CHAPTER XII. Unlawful recruiting. 82. (1) Whoever, except `in` conformity with the provisions provisions of this Act or of the rules made under this Act,- (a) makes, or attempts to make, any agreement with any Native of India, purporting to bind him to emigrate, or `(6)` in consideration of any hire or reward, induces, or attempts to induce, any Native of India to leave any place for the purpose of emigrating, or otherwise acts or is employed as a recruiter of emigrants, or - (c) in consideration of. any hire or reward, receives into or detains in any place, or, being a reciuiter, in any place other than a place in which accommodation has been provided in accordance with this Act or the rules made under this Act, any person with a view to his being registered as an emigrant, or after his registration as an emigrant and before his departure for the dep6t at the port of embarkation, shall be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. shall be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. CHAPTER XI. `RULES.` 80. (I) The Governor General in Council may, Power for from time to time, make rules consistent with this ~~~~~n Act- Council Council to (a) to provide for the supervision and regulation make of places of accommodation provided under this b 1 Emigra tiom. [ACT XXI, ( Chapter XI.-Rules-80.) this Act, and to define the classes of Magistrates and the officers of Police to be authorized to visit and inspect those places ; to prescribe the form of the register required unde? this Act, and the particulars to be entered therein, and to regulate the control to be exercised over Registering Officers by the District Magistrate or officer (if any) appointed in this behalf under this Act ; to prescribe the forms of the agreements to be made under this Act, and the particulars to be contained therein and the language or languages in which agreements must be expressed '; to prescribe the conditions on which licenses foY the establishment of dep8ts under this Act may be given, to provide for the supervision and regulation of depats, and for the medical care of the emigrants during their residence there, and the measures to be taken on the outbreak of any epidemic or infectious disease there ; - to prescribe the forms to be supplied by Emigration Agents and recruiters for the purposes of this Act ; to prescribe the particulars which the owner or master of a vessel applying for a license to carry emigrants in his vessel must state to regulate the proportion of women to be ordinarily carried in any emigrant-vessel with male emigrants, and to prescribe the arrangements to be made for the ~epa~ation of women (marpied or single) and children from the other emigrants on board an emigrant-vessel ; to carry emigrants in his vessel must state ; arrangements to be made for the ~epa~ation to prescribe the description, quantity and quality of provisions, fuel and water to be taken by emigrant-vessels, the aaily allow- ance ance of food and water to be issued, and the nature and amount of clothing to be supplied to each emigrant during the voyage ; `(i)` to fix the number of the compounders, interpreters and attendants subordinate to the surgeon to be carried for the care of the sick or weakly on board each emigrantvessel ; - ( j ) to prescribe the nature, quantity and quality of medicines and other stores to be carried on board emigrant-vessels ; `(k)` to provide for the ventilation and cleanliness of every emigrant-vessel during a voyage, and for it-s being furnished with a sufficient number of life-buoys, boats, water-buckets and other appliances to be used in case of shipwreck or fire ; (2) There shall be published with the draft `a,` notice specifying a date at or after which the draft will be taken into consideration. (3) The Governor General in Council shall receive and consider any objection or suggestion which may be made by a,np person with respect to the h a f t before the date so specified. ( I ) to prescribe the seasons at which alono emigrant-vessels or specified classes of emigrant-vessels may sail from any port in British India to any country west of the Cape of Good Hope to which emigration is for the time being lam7ful; - (m) to provide for the disposal of emigrants who may be landed under section seventy-nine ; (n) to provide for the midical care of the emigrants on the voyage, and to provide for the measures to be taken on the outbreak of any epidemic or infectious disease on a voyage ; (0) to provide for a journal being kept by the surgeon of every emigrant-vessel, recording the health of the emigrants, and his treatment of the sick, with full explanation of the causes of every death ; and to define the duties and powers of the surgeon in respect of tbe emigrants committed to his caze ; `(P)` to 252 [AOT `XXI,` Publication of drafts and rube. ! Emigrutioril.. (Chapter XI1.-Ofences-81, 82.) - ( 11) to define and regulate the powers and duties of the several officers appointed by the Government under this Act; and - (p) generally to provide for the security, wellBcing and protection of emigrants : . Provided that the Local Government may, in special cases, notwithstanding anything contained in rules made under clause ( g ) of this section, permit an emigrant-vessel to sail though it does not carry the proportion of women required to be carried in ordinary cases. (2) If any person, other than a recruiter licensed under this Act, commits an offence under this section, any Police-officer may arrest him without warrant. this Act,- 83. Whoever, being a recruiter licensed under `u` Recruiters removiug removiug unregistered emigrants to ' (a) removes, or attempts to remove, any intend- emigrants to ' ing emigrant to a dep8t before he has been reais" depat. teFed u d e r this Act i s an emimant, or induces. or attempts to induce, him to leave the. local limits of the jurisdiction of the Magistrate by whom the recruiter's license has been countersigned before he has been so registered, or aids, or artempts to aid, him in leaving any such local limits or going to any dep6t before he has been so registered, or ( b ) fails to give a true copy of the statement with which he is provided under section twenty-six to any person whom he invites to emigrate, or (c) fails Fraudulently inducing Native to emigrate. False representation of Government authority. Receiving emigrants on board vessel in contraven. tion of Act. $ 254 `Enzigralion.` `[ACT XXI,` ==> picture [174 x 17] intentionally omitted <== `(c)` fails to provide any emigrant whom he has engaged, and who has been registered at a place beyond the limits of the port of embarkation, with suitable lodging and food, or otherwise ill-treats any emigrant on his journey to the depbt,

Source: India Code