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“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Enactment so repealed in respect of any Tamil labourer employed by 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 H 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 
'^amil 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 persqn 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. 
The Superintendent ” means ths Superintendent of Immigrants 
appointed under . The Indian Immigration Enactment, 1904.” 
i u I^^gration Committee” means the Committee which 
shall, for the time being, bS notified by the order of the High Com- 
nussioner in the Gazette to be the Immigration Committee. 
le register means the JDooks 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 (6) of this Enactment. 
