Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
104. Application of Act to emigration from British ports to French and Dutch colonies.
104. The provisions of this Act shall apply to emigration from British Indian ports—
(a) to the French Colonies, under the terms of the Convention executed at Paris on the first day of July 1861, and ratified at the same place on the thirtieth day of July 1861, between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and His Majesty the Emperor of the French; and
(b) to the Netherlands colony of Dutch Guiana under the terms of the Convention executed at the Hague on the eighth day of September 1870, and ratified at the same place on the seventeenth day of February 1872, between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands:
Provided that emigration to the French Colonies, or any of them, shall not be lawful until a notification under section 4, sub-section (1), has been issued in respect thereof; but subject to this proviso, in any case in which there is any conflict between the provisions
616 Emigration. [ACT XVII
(Chapter XIV.—Supplemental.)
provisions of this Act and those contained in either of those Conventions, the latter shall prevail.
A pplication of Act to proceedings in British India connected with emigration from French ports in India to French colonies.
Source: India Code