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THE SIAM ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1884.
sions, and for the purpose of Part II. of the said Act and of this Article, all the places to which this Order for the time being applies, and the Straits Settlements, shall, for the purposes of Part II. of the said Act, be deemed to be one group of British posses sions, and the Consul shall, as regards any place within his jurisdiction, have the powers of a Governor or Superior Court of a British possession,
19. Rules and forms of procedure in civil and criminal matters in any Court acting under the Siam Orders in Council may, from time to time, be made and prescribed by the Consul-General, subject to the provisions of the said Orders; but no such rules or forms shall come into operation until they have been approved, with or without alteration, by a Secretary of State; provided that-
(i.) Any such rules or forms, if and as provisionally approved, with or without alteration, by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements, shall have effect pending approval or disapproval by the Secretary of State.
(ii) Until rules and forms have been made and approved, or provisionally ap proved, under this Article in relation to any matter, any rules or forms heretofore in force or use in the Court of the Consul-General, or in the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements, or in the Consular Courts of Shanghai or Japan, may be observed and used in any Court acting under this Order, with such modifications as circum- stances require.
20. For all the purposes of the Siam Orders in Council the expression "British subject" includes every person for the time being properly enjoying Her Majesty's protection in Siam, in so far as by Treaty, capitulation, grant, usage, sufferance, or other lawful means, Her Majesty has jurisdiction in Siam in relation to such persona.
And the Right Honourable the Earl Granville and the Right Honourable the Earl of Kimberley, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lorda Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
C. L. PEEL.