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A.D. 1884]
Colonial Prisoners Removal
[47 & 48 Vict. c. 3r
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CHAPTER XXXI
AN ACT to make further provision respecting the removal of Prisoners and Criminal Lunatics from Her Majesty's possessions out of the United Kingdorn. [28th July 1884.]
[Preamble.] Preliminary.
1. This Act may be cited as the Colonial Prisoners Removal Short titl Act, 1884.
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Prisoners Removal.
from Brit possession certain c
2. Where as regards a prisoner undergoing sentence of Removal imprisonment in any British possession for any offence it appears of prison to the removing authority herein-after mentioned either-
(a) that it is likely that the life of the prisoner will be endangered or his health permanently injured by further imprisonment in such British possession; or (b) that the prisoner belonged, at the time of committing the said offence, to the Royal Navy or to Her Majesty's regular military forces; or
(c) that the offence was committed wholly or partly beyond
the limits of the said British possession; or
(d) that by reason of there being no prison in the said British possession in which the prisoner can properly undergo his sentence or otherwise the removal of the prisoner is expedient for his safer custody or for more efficiently carrying his sentence into effect; or,
(e) that the prisoner belongs to a class of persons who under the law of the said British possession are subject to removal under this Act;
in any such case the removing authority may, subject neverthe- less to the regulations in force under this Act, order such prisoner to be removed to any British possession or to the United Kingdom to undergo his sentence or the residue thereof.
3. (1) Where a prisoner has been removed in pursuance of Return o this Act, a Secretary of State or the Government of a British removed possession to which the prisoner has been so removed, may order prison. the prisoner, for the purpose of undergoing the residue of his sentence, to be returned to the British possession from which he was removed.
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(2) If a Secretary of State or the Government of a British possession to which a prisoner is removed under this Act, requires the prisoner to be returned for discharge to the British possession from which he was removed, the prisoner shall, in accordance with the regulations under this Act, be returned to the said British possession for the purpose of being there discharged at the expiration of his sentence. In any other case a prisoner when discharged at the expiration of his sentence shall be entitled to be sent free of cost to the British possession from which he was.