CRIMINAL LUNATICS . [ 30 of 1889. ] 1165
No. 30 Or 1889.
An Ordinance to provide for certain expenses in relation Title.
to persons natives of or ordinarily resident in the
Colony who have been convicted, or acquitted on the
ground of insanity, before Courts exercising jurisdic
tion under the Imperial Foreign Jurisdiction Acts in
foreign countries.
(3rd December, 1889.)
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1. Where any person who is a native of or ordinarily resides Expenses of
in Hongkong has committed an offence in any country or place criminal
trial, etc.of
out of Her Majesty's Dominions and such person has been tried lunatics.
and either convicted, or acquitted on the ground of insanity,
before any Court, Judge, Magistrate or officer acting or exer
cising jurisdiction within or in relation to any such country or
place over such person by virtue of the Foreign Jurisdiction
Acts 1843 to 1878 or any order of Her 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 whom he is tried are sufficient to
meet the same, be borne and paid out of the Colonial Treasury :
provided always that no such payment shall be made until a
certificate of the amount of sucli expenses after deducting the
proceeds ( if any ) of the prisoner's effects shall have been trans
initted 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.