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1) Where the 32 [Central Government] has reason to believe that in any country to which emigration for the purpose of unskilled work is lawful plague or any other epidemic disease dangerous to human life has broken out, and that emigrants if allowed to emigrate to that country would be exposed to serious risk to life on arrival there, 33 [it] may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that emigration to that country for the purpose of unskilled work shall cease to be lawful. 34 [(2) Where the Protector of Emigrants for any port has reason to believe that such a state of affairs as is described in sub-section (1) exists in any country to which emigration for the purpose of unskilled work is lawful, he may, by notification in such manner as he thinks fit, declare that emigration to that country for the purpose of unskilled work from that port 35 [or airport] shall cease to be lawful pending a reference to the Central Government.]
(3) The 36 [Protector of Emigrants] publishing a notification under sub-s.
(2) shall forthwith report such notification with the reasons for it to the Central Government, which shall thereupon publish a notification in the Official Gazette confirming or cancelling the notification published by the 36 [Protector of Emigrants].