Section 3. Protectors of Emigrants

CHAPTER II EMIGRATION AUTHORITIES 3. Protectors of Emigrants.— (1) The Central Government may, by notification, appoint a Protector General of Emigrants and as many Protectors of Emigrants, as it deems fit, for the purposes of this Act. (2) The Central Government may, by general or special order, define the area to which the authority of a Protector of Emigrants so appointed shall extend and, where two or more Protectors of Emigrants are appointed for the same area, also provide, by such order, for the distribution and allocation of the work to be performed under this Act in relation to such area. (3) The Protectors of Emigrants shall perform the functions assigned to them by or under this Act under the general superintendence and control of the Protector General of Emigrants. (4) The Protector General of Emigrants may, in addition to the special function assigned to him by or under this Act, perform all or any of the functions assigned to any Protector of Emigrants. — 4. General duties of Protectors of Emigrants. Subject to the other provisions of this Act, every Protector of Emigrants shall, in addition to the special duties assigned to him by or under this Act — (a) protect and aid with his advice all intending emigrants and emigrants; (b) cause, so far as he can, all the provisions of this Act and of the rules made thereunder to be complied with; (c) inspect, to such extent and in such manner as may be prescribed — - (i) any emigrant conveyance, or (ii) any other conveyance if he has reason to believe that any intending emigrants or emigrants are proceeding from, or returning to, India to or from a place outside India by such other conveyance; (d) inquire into the treatment received by emigrants during their voyage or journey to, and during the period of their residence in the country to which they emigrated and also during the return voyage or journey to India and report thereon to the Protector General of Emigrants or such other authority as may be prescribed; (e) aid and advise, so far as he reasonably can, emigrants who have returned to India.