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No. 150.
(CEYLON.)
LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.
[Draft Order in Council to give effect to the Prisoners Removal Ordinance, 1911 (No. 13 of 1911).]
SIR,
Law Officers' Department,
Royal Courts of Justice,
30th November, 1911. We were honoured with your commands signified in Mr. G. V. Fiddes's letter of the 30th October last, stating that, with reference to our report of the 22nd of February, 1911,* on the legal measures necessary to effect the removal of prisoners from Ceylon to the Andaman Islands, he was directed by you to inform us, that, after consideration, you decided to recommend to the Government of Ceylon the introduction of a local Bill to provide for the removal of prisoners.
That Mr. Fiddes was to explain that, as the matter was considered to be urgent, it was felt that the solution of the question could not be delayed until an Imperial Act amending the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1869, could be passed. And that, further, the cumbrousness of the procedure under the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884, was to a large extent obviated by the fact that all the pre- liminary arrangements were made by telegraph and the preparation and despatch of the necessary formal documents entailed no more trouble than ordinary official correspondence. That the Legislative Council of Ceylon had acted on your recom- mendation, and that Mr. Fiddes was to enclose copies of the Prisoners Removal Ordinance, 1911, which had been duly passed, and of the Attorney-General's report on that Ordinance. That he was also to enclose the accompanying draft of an Order in Council by which it was proposed to give effect to the Ordinance, and that he was to enquire whether we concurred in the terms of the draft.
We have taken the papers into our consideration, and, in obedience to your commands, have the honour to
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That we concur in the terms of the draft Order in Council, which we have initialled.
We have, &c.,
RUFUS D. ISAACS. JOHN SIMON.
The Right Honourable
Lewis Harcourt, M.P.,
&c., &c., &c.
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Whereas by the twelfth section of the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884, it is enacted that if the Legislature of a British Possession pass any law for deter- mining the authority by whom and the manner in which any jurisdiction, power, or concurrence under that Act is to be exercised or given, or for payment of the costs incurred in the removal, maintenance, return, or sending back after discharge, of a prisoner or criminal lunatic, or for dealing in such Possession with prisoners or criminal lunatics removed thereto in pursuance of that Act, or for making any class of prisoners subject to removal under that Act, or otherwise in any manner for the carrying of that Act or any part thereof into effect as regards the said Possession, it shall be lawful for His Majesty in Council to direct that such law or any part thereof shall, with or without modification or alteration, be recognised and given effect to throughout His Majesty's dominions and on the high seas as if it were part of that Act:
And whereas the Legislature of the Island of Ceylon has passed an Ordinance, No. 13 of 1911, entitled An Ordinance to make provision for the removal of
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