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11. In this Order the words "the Colony" me any Colony specified in the schedule hereto and its Dependencies, and the term 'Governor" means the person for the time being administering the Governinent of the Colony.
III. So long as this Order shall be in operation in any Colony the following provisions shall have effect:~~~~
1. Every person who shall for the time being be within the limits of the Colony shall be subject to military law for the purposes of the Army Act, and the said Act shall, subject to the provisions of this Order, be deemed to apply to such person in the same manner as if such person bad becu a person accompanying His Majesty's troops or some portion thereof when employed in active service beyond the seas, and such person shall, for the purposes of the said Act, be deemed to be under the command of the Officer Commanding His Majesty's
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Provided that a person who is by virtue of this Order subject to military law shall, unless the Governor directs otherwise, be tried by a competent Civil Court, and not by Court Martial, for any offence for which he would be triable if he were not subject to mili- tary law.
Provided alan that a person who is by virtue of this Order subject to military law maY, if the Governor so directs, he tried for any offence punishable under the Army Act by Civil Court that is to say, by a Court of Summary Jurisdiction, in a summary manner-it the offence is not punishable by death or penal servitude, and if the Court considers that it would be adequately punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, and in all other cases by the same Court and in the same manner as if the offence with which such person is charged were an offence against the civil law not triable by a Court of Sum- mary Jurisdiction.
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2. Any declaration mule by the Governor under Section 189 of the Army Act shall be deemed to apply to every military force raised in the Colony,
8. The Governor may order any person to quit the Colony or any part of or place in the Colony to be specified in such order, and if any person shall refuse to obey any such order the Governor may cause him to be arrested and removed from the Colony or from such part thereof or place therein, aut for that purpose to be placed on board of any ship or boat.
4. The Governor may make any regulations or orders respecting any port or harbou, in the Colony and the movement or location of ships and boats therein or in any waters of the Colony, and any provision of any law of the Colony which may be inconsistent with any regulation or order made by the Governor under this sub-clause shall be suspended and of no effent during the continuance of auch regulation or order. Provided that no such regulation or order shall be put in force in such a manter as to be prejudicial to the action of His Majesty's unval or military forces.
3. The Governor may require any person to do any work or render any personal service which the Governor nay think necessary to order in aid of or in connection with the defence of the Colony,
6. The Governor may require any person to supply any animals, vehicles, ships, boats, or other personal property belonging to or under the control of such person to the trovern- ment, if such property be required in aid of or in connection with the defence of the Colony, and, in default of the person supplying the same, may seizo and take possession of and retain any such unimals, vehicles, boats, or other personal property for such purposes.
7. The Governor may take and retain. For such period as he may think necessary, possession for public purposes any land or building or other property, including gasworks and works for the supply of electric light, waterworks, wells, and springs of water, tanks and other receptacles of rain water, and may, if he think it necessary for the purposes of the defence of the Colony, cause any buildings to be pulled down and removed, and any pro- perty to be removed from one place to another or to he destroyeil.
8. The Governor may direct that all the resources of any railway in the Colony shall be placed at his disposal for any purpose which he considers necessary in connection with the defence of the Colony, and no liability whatever shall be incurred on account of any interference with the regular traffic which may thus be occasioned.
9. The Governor may seize and take possession of any grain, article of food, coal or other fuck and mineral oils within the limite of the Colony, and may sell any grain, article of food, cuals, fuel, and ils so seized and puken at such prices na may be determined by the Board hereinafter mentioned, and the moneys to be received for such sales shall be paid into the Treasury of the Colony.
10. The Governor may, by proclamation, prescribe the maximum price for which any article of food may be sold by retail, and any person who after such proclamation, and until it shall have been revoked, shall sell any urticle of food at a higher price than the price so prescribed shall be deamed guilty of an offence against this rider, and shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a fine not exceerling 50 dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
11. The Goveruor may take any steps he may consider necessary in the interests of the defence of the Colony for controlling the trade in beer, wine, or spirits.
12. The Governor shall, out of the public funds of the Colony, pay to every person who shall be required to do any personal servien by virtue of this Order such remuneration, and to every person whose property shall be taken, including any grain, article of food, coals, or other fuel taken by virtue of sub-clause of this clause, or temporarily taken possession of or removed or destroyed by virtue of this Order, such compensation as shall be agreed on between the Governor and such person, and in default of agreement, auch remqueration or compensation as shall be awarded by the Board hereinafter mentioned, whose award shall be final.
13. For the purpose of determining the amount of any remuneration or compensation payable under this Order and the prices at which any grain, article of food, coal or other fucl taken under sub-clause 9 of this clause may be sold to the inhabitants, the Governor shall appoint a Board consisting of five persons, of whom one shall be a Judge or Stipen diary Magistrate, two shall be officers either in the Civil Government of the l'olony or in His Majesty's naval or military service, and the other two shall be inhabitants of the Colony, All questions referred to the said Board shall, in case of a difference al opinion, he decided by the votes of the majority of the members. The Judge or Stipendiary Magistrate shall be the Chairman of the Board.
14. The said Board, in fixing the price to be paid for articles taken under sub-clause of this clause, shall not make any addition on account of the purchase being compulsary, and they shall is the prices at which such articles shall be sold at such rates as will, except under special circunstances, recoup to the Government the cost of purchasing the same and other expenses incidental thereto.
15. Any person authorised by the Governor in writing in that behalf may enter upon and into any land, house, or other building in the Colony, and examine and inspect such land or building and every or any part therof, and, in case of opposition or obstruction, may use force to effect such entry, examination, and inspection, and shall not be liable for any damage directly or indirectly occasioned by such forcible entry.
16. Every person who refuses or neglects to obey or comply with any order or requisí- tion made under this Order, or does anything whereby the execution of any such order or requisition is prevented or hinderel, or with intent to prevent or hinder the execution of auy such order or requisition shall be guilty of an offence against this Urder, and shall, on summary conviction überent, be liable to a fine not less than 20 dollars and hot more than 100 dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month.
17. If any person shall, by obeying any order or requisition mude under this Order, be prevented from fulfilling any contret, such person shall not be deemed to have thereby committed a breach of contract, but such contract shall be deemed be suspended by such order or requisition so far as its fulfilment is thereby rendered impossible.
18. The Governor may by Proclamation postpone for such period as he may think necessary or just and expedient the time at which suy rent or other moneys shall become due and payable, and particularly way so extend the period of maturity of bills or other negotiable instruments payable in the Colony, and may suspend for such time as he may think right the execution of the judgment of any Court of Civil Judicature and the enforcement of any process of evictinent or other process for the recovery of the possession of property in default of payment of rent if he shall consider that, owing to circumstances arising out of the state of war or the immediate apprehension of war, the immediate execution of such judgments or enforcement of such process would be inequitable or inexpedient.