ORDINANCE No. 14 OF 1872.
Detention of Foreign Offenders.
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Authentica tion of transmission.
3. The warrant or other official document of transmission shall be sufficiently proved if it purport to bear the signature and seal of a Diplomatic or Consular Officer in China or Japan of the Foreign Government, of which such offender is a subject, and for the purposes of this Ordinance the warrant or other document so authenticated shall be deemed and taken to have been legally issued and shall be evidence of all facts stated therein;
4. The offender shall be asked if he has any valid cause to show why he should not be committed to gaol to await the order of the Governor.
6. If the offender shall fail to show cause to the satisfaction of the Magistrate why he should not be committed, the Magistrate shall commit him to gaol there to await the order of the Governor.
Offender may show cause.
Committal by Magistrate.
to report to Governor.
7. The Magistrate before whom the offender shall be brought under this Ordinance shall, at the conclusion of the case, send a report thereon to the Governor.
Governor may order delivery up of the offender to a Consular Officer or other person.
Custody of offender after
8. The Governor may, after the committal of the offender to gaol as aforesaid, issue an order directed to the Superintendent of the Gaol for the delivery up of the offender to the Consular Officer of the said Foreign Government, or other person mentioned in such order, at such place within the Colony, and in such manner as may be specified by the said order for the purpose of his transmission as aforesaid; and the offender shall be delivered up accordingly; and if he shall escape out of any custody to which he shall be committed, or to which he shall be delivered as aforesaid, it shall be lawful to retake him in the same manner as any person accused of any felony committed within the Colony may be retaken on an escape.
9. The Governor may at any time before the offender shall have been conveyed out of the Colony, issue an order for his release from custody under this Ordinance, and thereupon the offender shall be forthwith discharged from such custody.
delivery to Consular Officer, &c.
The Governor may issue release.
Protection to Magistrate,
10. If any action be brought against a Magistrate, gaoler, officer of Police, Consular officer, or any other person whomsoever for anything done in obedience to, or in pursuance of any warrant or order issued under the provisions of this Ordinance, the proof of such warrant or order shall
acting under Ordinance.