190. Issue and production of tickets and refund of passage-money

Every owner or agent of a pilgrim ship and every pilgrim broker who issues to a pilgrim a ticket for the journey to the Hedjaz shall issue also to such pilgrim a ticket for the return journey:Provided that a ticket for the return journey need not be issued to any pilgrim who produces the written authority of the Minister for the issue to such pilgrim of a ticket for the single journey only.

Such tickets shall be in the prescribed form, and the pilgrim shall be bound to produce the ticket to such officers and on such occasions as are prescribed, and otherwise to deal with the same in the prescribed manner.

Every pilgrim prevented from embarking under section 181, or removed from the ship under section 182, or otherwise prevented from proceeding, shall be entitled to the refund of any passage-money which he has paid, subject to any prescribed conditions or deductions.

The legal personal representative of every pilgrim who, having purchased a ticket for the return journey, dies on board a pilgrim ship on the voyage to the Hedjaz, or the person entitled to become such, shall be entitled, on the production of his passage ticket and pilgrim pass and proof of the death, to a refund of the difference between the amount included in the cost of the ticket as sanitary taxes and the amount, if any, actually paid out as sanitary taxes at the ports visited together with the difference between the cost of the outward and return ticket exclusive of sanitary taxes and the cost of a single ticket exclusive of sanitary taxes, subject nevertheless to any conditions or deductions prescribed by rules made under section 206.

The legal personal representative of every pilgrim who, having purchased a ticket for the return journey, dies in the Hedjaz, or the person entitled to become such, shall be entitled to the like refund as is specified in subsection (4), subject to any conditions or deductions prescribed by rules made under section 206, on production of his passage ticket and pilgrim pass together with a certificate of his death signed and sealed by the Malay pilgrimage officer stationed at Jeddah or other port of disembarkation of pilgrims proceeding to the Hedjaz or signed by an officer of the appropriate legation or consulate in the Hedjaz and sealed with the seal of such legation or consulate, and every certificate purporting to be so signed and sealed shall be admissible as evidence of all the facts stated therein, and shall be received as evidence without proof of signature in any court of Singapore or in any arbitration.

The person primarily liable to make the refund referred to in subsections (3), (4) and (5) shall be the person to whom the passage-money was paid by the pilgrim. If it is in any case impossible to recover within a reasonable time from such person or from his legal personal representative any amount for which that person is liable under this section, and if such impossibility is certified under the hand of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, then and in every such case the owner or the agent of the ship whereon the pilgrim was prevented from embarking or proceeding, or from which he was removed, or on which he died, or by which he travelled to the Hedjaz, as the case may be, shall be liable to make the refund referred to in subsections (3), (4) and (5):Provided that if the owner or agent fails, within a reasonable time, to make such refund, the amount thereof may be paid by the Government for and on behalf of the owner.

A payment made in good faith to a person producing the passage ticket and pilgrim pass of any deceased pilgrim and representing himself as entitled to become the legal personal representative of such pilgrim shall be a good discharge to the person paying the same.

Every person to whom any money is paid as being the person entitled to become the legal personal representative of any deceased pilgrim shall apply the money in due course of administration.[207