Merchant Shipping Act, 1906

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Frauds in inducing or attempting to induce persons to engage passages.

24. The following section shall be substituted for section three hundred and fifty-three of the principal Act—

“If any person, by any false representation, fraud, or false “pretence, induces or attempts to induce any person to emigrate “or to engage a steerage passage in any ship, he shall for each “offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding “fifty pounds, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour “for a period not exceeding three months.”