THE COLONIAL PRISONERS REMOVAL ACTS.
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7. Every prisoner shall, upon his delivery to the person having lawful authority to receive him in the colony to which he is removed, be subject within such colony to the same laws and regulations, and shall be dealt with in all respects in the same manner, as if he had been tried and received the same sentence in such colony as the sentence which has been passed on him in the colony from which he is removed.
[s. 8, rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39.]
ACT OF 1884—47 & 48 VICT. c. 31.
An Act to make further provision respecting the removal of Prisoners and Criminal Lunatics from Her Majesty's Possessions out of the United Kingdom.
[28th July, 1884.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the removal of prisoners undergoing sentence, and of criminal lunatics from one British possession to another British possession, or to the United Kingdom :-
Preliminary.
which he is removed.
1. This Act may be cited as the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884.
Prisoners Removal.
2. Where as regards a prisoner undergoing sentence of imprisonment in any British possession for any offence it appears to the removing authority hereinafter 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 nevertheless 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.
from British possessions in certain cases,