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Deserters.
[15 & 16 Vict c. 26.]
INTERNATIONAL PROVISIONS OF
(3) If any person harbours or secretes any deserter liable to be apprehended under this section, knowing or having reason to believe that he has deserted, that person shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding £10.
ORDER IN COUNCIL [REPUBLIC OF THE EQUATOR (ECUADOR)] 24TH SEPTEMBER, 1886.
AND WHEREAS it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities will be given for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant ships in the dominions and possessions of the Republic of the Equator:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in Her by the said Foreign Deserters Act, 1852, and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, that from and after the publication hereof in the London Gazette, seamen, not being slaves, and not being British subjects, who, within Her Majesty's dominions, desert from merchant ships belonging to the Republic of the Equator, shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships: Provided always, that if any such deserter has committed any crime in Her Majesty's dominions, he may be detained till he has been tried by a competent Court, and until his sentence, if any, has been carried into effect.
COUNTRIES TO WHICH THE SECTION HAS BEEN APPLIED
Austria-Hungary
16th Oct., 1852
Belgium
8th Feb., 1855
Brazil
17th Nov., 1888
Colombia
28th Dec., 1866
Congo State..
10th Aug., 1888
Denmark
15th July, 1881
Ecuador
24th Sept., 1886
France
3rd July, 1854
Germany
18th March, 1880
Greece...
12th July, 1887
Honduras...
26th Sept., 1901
Italy.....
11th June, 1863
Japan
3rd Oct., 1911
Mexico.....
28th May, 1889
Morocco and Fez
6th May, 1857
Netherlands....
9th March, 1854
Nicaragua
1st March, 1907