Section 2. Bengal Act No. VII of 1873 (to amend the law Repeal of _relnting to the emigration of labourers to

CHAPTER I. PRESIMINARY. 1. This Act may be called " The Inland Emigra- Short title. tion Act, 1882." It ex tends to the t eiqritories respectively adminis- Local ext.enttered by the Lieutenant-Governors of Bengal and the North-Western Provinces and the Chief Commissionws of Oudh and Assaru : . Comm~,une- Comm~,unemeut. And it shall come into force at once. 2. Bengal Act No. VII of 1873 (to amend the law Repeal of relnting to the emigration of labourers to the dist~icts enactment's. of Assam, Oaclzar and Silhat and to ~egulate contractlabour and se~vice), Bengal Act No. `I1` of 1878 (to extend the p~~ovisions of Bengal Act F . o f 1873 to the distl-ict of Chittagong and to the Clzittagong Hill Tracts) and Regulation No. IV of 1877 (a Begulation for extending to the Clzief C'ommissio~zersh+ of Assam, Chapter 13 of Bengal A c t `TIT` of 1873) are hereby repealed. the chief person for tire tinic " ~ w ~ l n ~ e r " '. BmploJ~er *' the chief person for tire tinic eing in charge of any estate upon which labourers lvore tllan fifty other persons are employed : " 3rnignte " denotes departure of any native " Emigrate" of ~ ~of tile d age of sixteen years or utpwards (other i ~ a nativt: of a laborxr-district) from ally pn~:t of the territories administered hy tbe Lieutenan t-Governor of ~ ~ n g a l , not being a labour-district, or from the itories res~ectively ad~iliiiistered by the Lieutenant;ernor of the North-Western Provinces and tlle ,f ~ ~ ~ ~ i z i s s i o n e r f Oudh, for the purpose of ,ing for hire in a labour-district othrrrvise than clomestic servant : l>e13cndent " means any woma.11 (not being a .c ncPe& lIower), any child and ally aged or incapacitated e ~ t " : lative or friend accolnpanying say labourer -\vitl~ cbnsent of a contr~~ctor, sub-contractor, recruiter, 1 &gent or garden-sardfw : vessel " iiicludes anything made for the con- " vessel1' : yallce by water of human beings or property : nd used in this Act, shall have the meanings understood as defined ~vely a,ssigned to them by that Act. Cont~act Act. as defined in Cont~act Act. Poner to to ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ he Local G~overiiinelil may, with tlie previous Poner to to ~ ~ of the Governor General in Council, by notithe local official Gazettc, declare that any rict ~vitbill the territories acllviilistered by overnment shall, from a day specified in such tif~cation, cease to be subject to all. tlie provisions any specified provision of illis ~ c ; and from such t such labour-district sliall cease to be subject to provisiolls of this Act or to the 1~~ovisioll so speci, as the case mav be. &7,lancl Bvtigmt.io?z, ill cu131ica,te on sulsstantial paper. cll contract shall specify- tile names of the labourer and his employer ; the terln for which the labourer is to labour; G~ wages in money and the price at whicll dce is to be supplied to him ; - (d) tlie laboW-district in whicll, and, if the labourer so request, tlie estate on which, he is sucll contract sshall be in the form prescribed be schedule hereto annexed. slzall be made for a tern1 exceed- N~ such e labourer entering into it. . Unless the labour-contract specifies the pa'- If does coco n tract ot speestate on wliich the labourer is to labour, the ,ify rer slzall be deemed to have contracted to labour labourer !.o estate in charge of the employer for whom he[be deemed to ] bave contracted to labour, and situate in the l&bour= tracted to If does coco n tract ot spe-