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(e) Of any informality in the swearing of any witness; or (f) Of any error or informality which, in the opinion of the Court, did not affect the substance of the case or subject the convicted person to any undue prejudice. (4) The Full Court shall not award costs to either side in an Appeal under this part of the Order save in an appeal under Article 93.
98. Article 56 shall apply to all proceedings before the Full Court under this Order.
99. Where a person is convicted of any offence before any Court, if the Judge of such Court thinks fit to reserve for the consideration of the Full Court any question of law arising at the trial, he shall state a case, setting out the facts and the grounds of the conviction, and the question of law, and send or deliver it to the Registrar.
100. The jurisdiction of the Full Court under Article 99 shall be exercised subject to the provisions of this Order.
101. There shall be no Appeal in a criminal case to His Majesty the King in Council from a decision of the Full Court except by special leave of His Majesty in Council.
102. Reports to the Minister of sentences of death shall not be sent until the expiration of the time allowed for an Appeal, or for applying for leave to appeal, against the conviction, or, if there is an Appeal, until the determination of the Appeal.
Fugitive Offenders.
103. The Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 69), and the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 31), shall apply to China as if it were a British possession and part of His Majesty's dominions.
Subject as follows:-
(a) The Minister is substituted for the Governor or Govern-
ment of a British possession.
(b) The Supreme Court is substituted for a Superior Court
of a British possession.
(c) The Supreme Court and each Provincial Court is substi- tuted for a Magistrate of any part of His Majesty's dominions.
(d) For the purposes of Part II of the said Act of 1881, and of this Article in relation thereto, China within the limits of this Order and within the limits of the China (Kashgar) Order in Council, 1920, and Hong Kong shall be deemed to be one group of British possessions.
PART IV.-CIVIL MATTERS.
104. Subject to the provisions of this Order, the civil jurisdic- tion of every Court acting under this Order shall, as far as circum- stances admit, be exercised on the principles of, and in conformity with, English law for the time being in force.