FOREIGN RECRUITING ORDINANCE

FOREIGN RECRUITING ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 198.

FOREIGN RECRUITING.

To control recruiting for the service of foreign states.
[16th November, 1874.]

WHEREAS it is expedient that the Governor should exercise
full control over recruiting in this Colony for the service
of foreign states :

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign
Recruiting Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, 'foreign state' includes any
person exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of
government in or over any country, colony, province, or
people beyond the limits of this Colony.

3. If any person is, within this Colony, obtaining or
attempting to obtain recruits for the service of, or for service
in, any foreign state in any capacity, the Governor may, by,
order, either prohibit such person froni so doing or permit
him to do so subject to any conditions which he thinks fit
to impose.

4. The Governor may by general order notified in the
Gazette, either prohibit recruiting for the service of any
foreign state or impose upon such recruiting any conditions
which he thinks fit.

5. Any person who, in violation of the prohibition of
the Governor or of any condition subject to which perinission
to recruit may have been accorded-
(a)induces or attempts to induce any person to accept
or agree to accept, or to proceed to any place with
a view to obtaining, any commission or employment
in the service of any foreign state; or
(b) knowingly aids in the engagement of any person
so induced, by forwarding or conveying him or by
advancing money or in any other way whatever,
shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years, and to a
fine of such amount as the court thinks fit. [6]
Originally 7 of 1874. Fraser. 1 of 1874. Short title. Interpretation. Powers as to recruiting individuals. Power as to recruiting generally. Punishment of offences.

Originally 7 of 1874. Fraser. 1 of 1874. Short title. Interpretation. Powers as to recruiting individuals. Power as to recruiting generally. Punishment of offences.

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