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APPENDIX A.
THE SOURCES OF THE CRIMINAL LAW OF DIFFERENT
COLONIES.
The following Table is designed to show roughly the source from which every Colony, including India, derives its criminal law, -
24 & 25 Vict., cc. 96-100.
NAME OF THE COLONY.
Bahamas
Barbados
Bermuda
Cyprus
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Gibraltar
Gambia
Hong Kong Jamaica ...
Lagos
...
Leeward Islands New South Wales Newfoundland...
Nigeria (North) St. Helena
St. Vincent Sierra Leone
Tasmania
Trinidad
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37 of 1865.
30 & 31 V., ce. 8-12.
2 of 1838, 10 of 1839.
I of 1878: Order in Council, 30 Nov
1882, rule 24.
3 of 1900, s. 31,
39 V., c. 14.
4 of 1889).
Order in Council, 21 Dec. 1883, 17 Nov.
1888.
4-8, 10 of 1865.
27 V,, cc. 32-34, 21-23 of 1872.
4 of 1876, s. 14.
15, 16, 20 of 1873.
40 of 1900.
Consol, Stats,, Title XII., s. 39.
Protectorate Courts, Proclamation, 1900.
2 of 1887.
290, 206, 300 of 1868.
9 of 1881, s. 19.
5-10 of 1863.
1-18 of 1849.
No. 1079 (Crimes Act, 1890.)
29 V., c. 5.
Victoria ...
Western Australia
ENGLISH CODE.
Canada
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55 & 56 V. c. 29.
Cape of Good Hope, Native
Territories:
(Tembuland, Pondoland, 24 of 1886.
and Griqualand, East.)
New Zealand
Queensland
South Australia
...
56 of 1893.
9 of 1899,
Now being drafted.
INDIAN PENAL CODE.
Ceylon
India Labuan
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45 of 1860.
4 of 1890.
Straits Settlement
4 of 1871.
Pahang
Perak ...
Selangor
9 of 1898.
G of 1884.
11 of 1893.
Negri Sembilan
7 of 1895.
British Honduras
Gold Const
Grenada ...
St. Lucia
~JAMAICA CODE.
Pt. XI., Ch. XXIVA.
No. 12 of 1892.
No. 2 of 1897.
No. 101 of the laws.
In the Cape of Good Hope the criminal law is the Roman-Dutch law (w/ the Charter of Justice, 1832, s. 31) modified by various enactments adapted from the English Acts of 1861. ́ As to Natal, see No. 12 of 1845
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Mauritius (6 of 1838) including Seychelles, follows the French Code; Malta has a code of its own, see Proclamation of 1854, a consolidated code of 1883, and an amending Ordnance of 1900,
British Guiana in No. 18 of 1893 has a code, the arrangement of which is taken from the Jamaica code, and the actual language from the Acts of 1861; while gaps are filled in by definitions and so forth taken from the English Code.