CAP. 223]
Originally
30 of 1889. Fraser
8 of 1889.
Short title.
Payment of expenses of trial, etc., of native, etc., convicted or acquitted on ground of insanity of offence under Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, vide 63 & 54 Vict. c. 37.
Foreign Jurisdiction (Expenses).
CHAPTER 223.
FOREIGN JURISDICTION (EXPENSES).
To provide for expenses in relation to persons who have been convicted or acquitted on the ground of insanity before courts under the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts.
[3rd December, 1889.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign Jurisdiction (Expenses) Ordinance.
2.
Where any person who is a native of or ordinarily resides in this Colony has committed an offence in any country or place out of His Majesty's dominions, and such person has been tried and either convicted or acquitted on the ground of insanity before any court, judge, magistrate, or officer acting or exercising jurisdiction within or in relation to any such country or place over such person by virtue of the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts of the Imperial Parliament or any Order of His Majesty in Council made in pursuance thereof, the expenses of the removal of the prisoner to this Colony, or to the place where he is to undergo his sentence or be confined as a criminal lunatic, and of his maintenance during imprisonment or confinement, and any other expenses properly incident to his conviction or acquittal as aforesaid, shall, except in so far as the prisoner's effects under the order of the court before which he is tried are sufficient to meet the same, be borne by and paid out of the Treasury: Provided always that no such payment shall be made until a certificate of the amount of such expenses, after deducting the proceeds, if any, of the prisoner's effects, has been transmitted to the Colonial Secretary under the hand and seal of the judge, magistrate, or officer acting or exercising jurisdiction in the country or place where the criminal lunatic was tried, and, in the case of expenses incurred in the maintenance of such lunatic during imprisonment or confinement, under the hand of the head officer of the prison or place of confinement.
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