Section 91

Every foreign-going ship which proceeds from North Borneo, not being an emigrant ship within the meaning of Part III of the Principal Act, having one hundred persons or upwards on board, shall carry on board as part of her complement some duly qualified

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medical practitioner, and if she does not, her owner shall for every voyage of the ship or any part thereof made without a duly qualified medical practitioner be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five thousand dollars.

The provisions of section 303 of the Principal Act shall apply in respect of an emigrant ship, as defined for the purposes of Part III of that Act, which proceeds from North

Borneo and for any voyage made in breach of such provisions the owner shall be liable to the like penalty as provided for a breach of the provisions of subsection (1).

For the purposes of subsection (1), “duly qualified medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner authorised by law to practise as a legally qualified medical practitioner in some part of the Commonwealth or, in the case of a foreign ship, in the country to which the ship belongs.

Penalty on master on filthy condition of ship carrying passengers.