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44 THE TAMIL IMMIGRATION FUND ENACT- 

 MENT, 1908." F. M. S. 



An Enactment to provide a Fund for the Immigration of Tamil 

 Labour. 



November 1908. 



1. (i) This Enactment may be cited as "The Tamil Immigration Fund 

 Enactment, 1908," and shall come into operation within such area or 

 areas, and at such date or dates, respectively, as the Resident, with 

 the approval of the Resident-General, shall from time to time direct 

 by notification in the Gazette. 



(ii) The Enactment mentioned in the first schedule. Provided that 

 nothing in such repeal shall be deemed to relieve and employer from 

 any duty, liability, or penalty arising out of the provisions of the said 

 Enactment so repealed in respect of any Tamil labourer employed by 

 him or working on his place of employment during the year 1908. 



2. In this Enactment each of the following terms shall have the 

 meaning assigned to it by this section unless there be something in- 

 consistent with such meaning in the subject or context : 



" Tamil labourer " means an Asiatic native of the Madras Presi- 

 dency of British India of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who 

 is employed in any of the kinds of labour specified in the second 

 schedule to this Enactment or in any other kind of labour which may 

 be declared by the Resident-General to be subject to the provisions of 

 this Enactment, and for the purpose of this Enactment every Asiatic 

 of Indian descent shall be deemed to be a native of the Madras Presi- 

 dency until the contrary is proved. 



" Employer " means any person, including the Government, and 

 any body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, who shall employ any 

 Tamil labourers and shall in his absence include his agent or manager 

 or other person in charge of the work on which such Tamil labourers 

 are employed, and a person who makes payments for work executed 

 by Tamil labourers by contract or by the piece to some person other 

 than such Tamil labourers shall be deemed to be the employer of such 

 Tamil labourers if such work is done in the conduct of any trade, 

 business or industry carried on by him or on his behalf. 



" Place of employment " means any place where work is carried 

 on by or on behalf of an employer. 



1 The Superintendent " means the Superintendent of Immigrants 

 appointed under " The Indian Immigration Enactment, 1904." 



" The Immigration Committee " means the Committee which 

 shall, for the time being, be notified by the order of the High Com- 

 missioner in the Gazette to be the Immigration Committee. 



"The register " means the books which are required to be kept 

 under section 4 (a) of this Enactment. A register shall be deemed not 

 to be written up to date unless by the fifteenth day of any month all 

 entries required by section 4 {a) have been made in respect of the 

 preceding month. 



" The return " means the return which is required to be kept 

 under section 4 {b) of this Enactment. 



