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(i) The expression "officer of customs" shall mean an officer of the Customs department of the possession, or where there is no such department, an officer or one of the officers appointed for the purposes of the said Act by the Governor-in-Council, of which appointment notice shall be published in the Gazette of the possession.
(ii) The provisions of the said Act as to the amount of fines shall, in possessions having a dollar or rupee currency, be read as if the amounts were stated in dollars or rupees, as the case may be, at the rate of 5 dollars or 10 rupees to the pound sterling. In Gibraltar the said provisions shall be read as if the amounts were stated in pesetas, at the rate of 25 pesetas to the pound sterling.
(iii) In lieu of sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 7 of the said Act the following provisions shall be substituted, that is to say—Every offence may be prosecuted and every fine may be recovered by action or other legal proceeding in any Court of the possession competent to impose fines, but any fine imposed by a Court of inferior or limited jurisdiction shall not exceed either the amount authorised by the said Act and this Order, or the amount of fine which the Court may impose in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction, whichever of the said amounts shall be the less; and there shall be the same right of appeal (if any) against any such fine as in other cases of fines imposed by the same Court in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction; and every Court, whether of original or appellate jurisdiction, may reduce the amount of any fine.
(iv) The regulations required to be made under sub-section (4) of section 7 of the said Act, by the Commissioners of Customs with the consent of the Treasury, shall in the possession be made by the Governor-in-Council.
(v) Section 5 of the said Act, so far as relates to the Commissioners of Customs, shall not apply in the possession.
4. This Order may be cited as the Mail Ships (France) Order in Council, 1892.
SCHEDULE REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING ORDER IN COUNCIL.
CONVENTION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC RESPECTING POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS.
Signed at London, 30th August, 1890.
[Ratifications exchanged at London, 23rd March, 1891.]
HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the President of the French Republic, alike animated