303.—(1) Subject to any regulations made by Order in Council under this Part of this Act, a duly authorised medical practitioner shall be carried on board an emigrant ship—

(a) where the number of steerage passengers on board exceeds fifty; and also

(b) where the number of persons on board (including cabin passengers, officers, and crew) exceeds three hundred.

(2) A medical practitioner shall not be considered to be duly authorised for the purposes of this Act unless—

(a) he is authorised by law to practise as a legally qualified medical practitioner in some part of Her Majesty’s dominions, or, in the case of a foreign ship, in the country to which that ship belongs: and

(b) his name has been notified to the emigration officer at the port of clearance, and has not been objected to by him: and

(c) he is provided with proper surgical instruments to the satisfaction of that officer.

(3) When the majority of the steerage passengers in any emigrant ship, or as many as three hundred of them, are foreigners, any medical practitioner whether authorised or not may, if approved by the emigration officer, be carried therein.

(4) Where a medical practitioner is carried on board an emigrant ship he shall be rated on the ship’s articles.

(5) If any requirement of this section is not complied with in the case of any emigrant ship, the master of the ship shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

(6) If any person proceeds or attempts to proceed as medical practitioner in any emigrant ship without being duly authorised, or contrary to the requirements of this section, that person and any person aiding and abetting him shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.