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Colonial Prisoners Removal
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Act, 1884.
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A.D. 1884,
place under foreign juris. diction Acts.
15. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council from time Application to time to direct that this Act shall apply, as if, subject to the of Act to conditions, exceptions, and qualifications (if any) contained in the Order, any place out of Her Majesty's dominions in which Her Majesty has jurisdiction, and which is named in the Order, were a British possession and part of Her Majesty's dominions, and to provide for carrying into effect such application.
See 41 & 42 Vict. c.67.
16.-(1.) Nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of the Savings. Army Act, 1881.
(2.) This Act shall not affect any agreement made either before or after the passing of this Act under the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1869, nor any provisions contained in the Act of the session of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-one, intituled "An Act to authorise * the reinoval from India of insane persons charged with offences, and to give better effect to inquisitions of Junney taken in ** Indin."*
17. This Ach shall apply to a prisoner who has been convicted, and to a criminal Junntic who has become a crimiund humtio, before the passing of this Act, in like manner as if he had been convicted and become a criminal unnlig after the commencement of this Ael.
44 & 45 Vict. c. 58,
32 & 33 Vict. c. 10.
Application of Ack to existing prinomers and criminal Imation,
18. In this Act, unless the context otherwins requires, the Deluitions. following expressions have this following mennings; that is to say,
The expression " British possession " does not include any pince within the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands, but includes all other territories and places being part of Her Majesty's dominions, and all territories and places within Her Majesty's dominions which are not part of India and are under one legislature shall be deemed to be one British possession, and any part of India under a Governor or Lieutenant Governor shall be deemed to be one British possession.
The expression "India" means all territories and places within Her Majesty's dominions which are subject to the Governor Goneral of India in Council.
The expression "legislature," where there are local legislatures, as well as a central legislature, means the contral legislature only, and in every part of India means the Governor General in Council.
The expression "Secretary of State" means one of Ier Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
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