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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 15, 1916.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 538. The following Order of His Majesty the King in Conncil is published for general information.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 24TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1916.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
LORD PRESIDENT.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN.
LORD CARNOCK.
WHEREAS
MR. SECRETARY BONAR LAW. SIR JOSEPH G. WARD,
MR. W. F. MASSEY.
LORD JUSTICE SCRUTTON.
7 HEREAS it is provided by Section I of the Fugitive Offenders (Protected States) Act, 1915, that His Majesty, by Order in Council, may direct that the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881; shall apply as if, subject to the conditions, exceptions, and qualifica- tions (if any) contained in the Order, any place or group of places over which His Majesty extends his protection, named in the Order, were a British Possession, and may provide for the carrying into effect of such application :
And whereas the States named in the Schedule to this Order are places or groups of places over which His Majesty extends his protection :
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And whereas by reason of the contiguity of the said States with each other, and with the Colony of the Straits Settlements, (hereinafter called The Colony "), and the fre- quent inter-communication between them, it seems expedient to His Majesty, and condu- cive to the better administration of justice therein, and the Rulers of the said States have requested, that Part II of the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, should apply to the Colony and the said States, and that, subject to the provisions of this Order, the said Act should apply to the said States as if they were British Possessions :
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by the Fugitive Offenders Acts, 1881 and 1915, and otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows :-
1. This Order may be cited as The Straits Settlements and Protected States Fugitive Offenders Order in Council, 1916," and shall come into force on such day as may be fixed by notification by His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies published in the London Gazette, which date is in this Order referred to as the Commencement of this Order.
2. Subject to the provisions of this Order the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, shall apply as if the States named in the Schedule to this Order were British Possessions.
3.-(i) In the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, us hereby applied to the States named in the Schedule to this Order, and in this Order with reference to the said States, unless the context otherwise requires :
"The Governor" means the Officer for the time being exercising the functions :-
(a) As regards the Federated Malay States, of British Resident of the State in
or on his way to which the Fugitive is or is suspected of being;
(b) As regards Johore, of General Adviser;
(c) As regards Kedah, Perlis and Kelantan, of British Adviser;
(d) As regards Brunei, of British Resident;
(e) As regards North Borneo, of Principal Representative of the British North
Borneo Company in Borneo.