Section 46. Power for Protector to order payment of expenses of return of emigrant in certain cases

46. Power for Protector to order payment of expenses of return of emigrant in certain cases. 47. Payment of expenses of dependents and relatives. 48. Compensation to emigrant for ill-treatment on journey. 46. (1) In any of the following cases, namely:— (a) if the Medical Inspector of Emigrants finds that an emigrant is, or has become, unfit to undertake the journey to the country to which he has agreed to emigrate, and if the Protector of Emigrants considers that the emigrant has not dishonestly represented himself as fit to undertake the journey, or (b) if 1908.] Emigration. 591 (Chapter VIII.—Conveyance of Emigrants to Depôts and Procedure on Arrival.) (b) if the Protector finds that any such irregularity has occurred in the recruitment or treatment by the recruiter of any emigrant as makes it just to rescind the agreement to emigrate, or (c) if the Emigration Agent refuses to fulfil the agreement entered into with the emigrant, the Protector may order the Emigration Agent to pay to the emigrant such sum as the Protector deems reasonable as compensation, and, when the emigrant has been registered at a place beyond the limits of the port of embarkation, such reasonable sum as is necessary to enable him to return to the place at which he was registered, and may take any steps which he thinks necessary for the conveyance of the emigrant to that place. (2) Any emigrant who has been registered at any place beyond the limits of the port of embarkation, and who from his state of health is, in the opinion of the Medical Inspector of Emigrants, unfit to undertake at once the return journey to the place at which he was registered, shall be entitled to be fed, lodged, clothed and attended to at the depôt at the expense of the Emigration Agent until he is reported by the Medical Inspector fit to undertake the return journey.