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or to the United Kingdom, and to deliver him, when there, into the custody of any authority designated in such warrant, or empowered to receive him.

V. Every prisoner shall, from the time of his leaving the prison from which he is removed as aforesaid, be deemed to be in the legal custody of the person or persons empowered to remove him, and to be subject to the same restraint, and, in the event of misbehaviour, to the same punishment as if he had continued in prison, and as if the person or persons empowered to remove him were the gaoler or gaolers of such prison; and if he escape or attempt to escape, from such custody, such pri soner, and every person aiding or attempting to aid him in such escape, shall be subject to the samne punishment as if such escape or attempt to escape were an escape or attempt to escape from prison.

A prison shall mean any place of confinement, or any place where the prisoners undergo punishment.

Any person punishable under this section may be tried and punished either in the place from which he is being removed, or in any part of Her Majesty's dominions in which he may be while in course of removal; and the law applicable to such person

shall be the law of the place in which he is tried.

offenders in course of removal to

be in legal custody.

"Colony."

For the purposes of this Act, the term "United Definition of terms: Kingdom" shall include the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The term "Colony " shall include any place within such territories as may for the time being be vested in Her Majesty by virtue of any Act of Parliament for the Government of India, and also shall include any plantation, terri- tory, or settlement situate elsewhere within Her Majesty's Dominions, and subject to the same local Government; and for the purposes of this Act, all plantations, territories, and settlements under a central Legislature, shall be deemed to be one Colony, under the same local Government.

The term "Governor" shall include the officer for the time being administering the Government of any Colony.

"Governor."

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Schedule.

Every telegram sent in pursuance of this Act, requesting that a warrant may be issued for the apprehension of an alleged offender, shall be written in a cypher to be selected for the purpose by the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

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Schedule.

sent in pursuance of this Act,

warrant may be issued for

of an alleged offender, shall

her to be selected for the purpose

State for the Colonies.