Foreign Offenders Detention.
(c) the warrant or other official document of transmission shall be sufficiently proved if it purports to bear the signature and seal of a diplomatic or consular officer 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; and
(d) the offender shall be asked if he has any valid cause to show why he should not be committed to prison to await the order of the Governor.
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5. If the offender fails to show cause, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, why he should not be committed, the magistrate shall commit him to prison, there to await the order of the Governor.
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6. The magistrate before whom the offender is brought shall, at the conclusion of the case, send a report thereon to the Governor.
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7. (1) The Governor may, after the committal of the offender to prison as aforesaid, issue an order directed to the Commissioner of Prisons 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.
(2) If the offender escapes out of any custody to which he has been committed or to which he has been 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.
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8. The Governor may at any time before the offender has 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.
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