An Ordinance to provide for the medical wants of immigrant labourers in certain planting districts.

  • Ceylon.
Date:
1880
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Credit: An Ordinance to provide for the medical wants of immigrant labourers in certain planting districts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof. No. 17.—1880. J. R. Longden. An Ordinance to provide for the Medical Wants of immigrant labourers in certain planting districts, HEREAS it is expedient to make better provision than at Preamble, present exists for the medical wants of immigrant labourers in certain planting districts : BE IT ENACTED BY THE GOVERNOR OF CEYLON, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :— 1. THIS Ordinance may be cited as “ The Medical Wants Ordi- Short title. nance, 1880,” and shall come into operation upon and after such day, subsequent to the 30th day of June, 1881, as may be appointed by the Governor in Council by proclamation in the Government Gazette for the purpose. 2. IN this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, Interpretation. 1. The expression “district” shall include an entire district appointed under this Ordinance. 2. The expression “estate” shall include every estate, in dis- tricts appointed as aforesaid, in which immigrant labourers are employed, having ten acres of land actually cultivated in coffee, tea, cocoa, cinchona, or any of those products. 3. The expression “ superintendent” shall mean any person in the immediate charge of any estate. 4. The expression “labourer” shall include every labourer, whether male or female, and the children of such labourers, and every kaukani. 3. THE Government shall cause provision to be made for the medical care of labourers employed on estates. 4. FOU the purpose of providing a special fund to defray the cost of the medical care of labourers on estates under this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, from lime to time by proclamation in the Gazette, to impose a duty, and the same from time to time to increase or reduce, not ex- ceeding twenty cents per hundredweight on coffee, tea, and cocoa, and forty cents per hundredweight on cinchona, which duty shall be levied at the Customs on the entry for exportation of all coffee, tea, cocoa, and cinchona, and shall be payable to, and shall be collected and received by the proper officers of the Customs Department; and the payment thereof shall be enforced under the provisions of the Oi di- nance 17 of 1869, intituled An Ordinance for the general regulation •f Customs in the Island of Ceylon. 5. THE duty to be collected under the authority of the la=t pre- ceding clause shall be paid into the Treasury, and shall be carried to the credit of a fund to be called the “ Medical Aid Fund,” and shall be applied and devoted to defray the expenses incurred under this Ordinance, and to no other purpose whatever. And an account current of cuch fund shall be made up annually and published in the Gazette fer general information. To be called the Medical Aid Fund. Government te undertake medical care ef labourers. Special fund te be cremed lor the purpose