[CH. 31.]
Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884.
[47 & 48 Vior.]
A.D. 1884. warrant or some one or more of them, and to be held in custody and convoyed by sea or otherwise to the said part of Her Majesty's dominions, thero to undergo his sentence, or the residue thereof, until returned in pursuanco of this Act or discharged, and such warrant shall be forthwith executed according to the tonor thereof.
Dealing with removed prisoner.
Escape of prisoner from enstody.
(2.) Where a prisoner is to be returned to a British possession, a Secretary of State or the Governor of the possession in which he has been undergoing his sentenco, shall issue a liko warrant, which shall be duly executed necording to the tenor thereof.
(3.) Every warrant purporting to be issued in pursuance of this Aet, and to be undor, the hand of a Seerotary of State or Governor of a British possession, shall be received in evidence in every cours of justico in Her Majesty's dominions without further proof, and shall be evidence of the facts therein stated, and all nets done in pursunoo of such warrant shall be deemed to have been authorised by law.
8. (1) very prisoner removed in purmanno of thin Act, nhall, until ho is roburned in pursuance of this Act, be denli with in the part of Hør Majesty's dominions to which he is removed, in like manner as if his soulence (with such variation, if any, of the conditions thereof as may have been duly made in pursuance of regulations under this Act) had been duly awarded in thmb part, and shall be subject accordingly to all laws and regulations in forco in that part, with the following qualifientions, thick his conviction judgment and sontence may be questioned in the purt of Hor Majesty's dominions from which lie has been removed in the same manner as if he had not been reinoved, and that his sentence may be remitted and his discharge ordored in the same manuer and by the same authority as if ho had not been removed.
(2.) The officer in charge of any prison, on request by any person having the custody of a prisoner under a warrant issued in pursuance of this Act, and on payment or tender of a reasonable amount for expenses, shall receive such prisoner and detain him for such reasonable time as may be requested by tho said person for the purpose of the proper execution of the warrant.
9.-(1.) If a prisoner while in custody in pursuance of this Act, or under a warrant issued in pursuance of this Act escapes, by breach of prison or otherwise, out of custody, ho may be retaken in the samo manner as a porson convicted of a crime against the law of the place to which he escapos may be rotaken upon an escapo.
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