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Section 6, Sub-section 1, Sub-clause (4).

Where person is churged with an offence cognizable

by a British Jourt in a foreign country, any person having au-

thority derived from iler Lajesty in that behalf may, by wr-

ront, cause the person so charged to be sent for trial to any

British possession for the time being appointed in that celalf

by Order in Council, and unon the arrival of the person s5

charged in that British possession, such Criminal Tourt of

that possession as is authorised in that sehalf y Order in

Council, or if no Court is so authorised, the supreme triminel

Court of that possession, may cause in to be kept in safe und

proper custody, and so soon as conveniently may be way enquire

of, try and determine the offence, and on conviction punien

the offender according to the laws in force in that benalf

within tint possession in the same minner as if the offence

had been committed within the jurisdiction of that Jrilin-l

Court.

(a).

The Court of the British possession shall edmit

and give effect to the low by wich the alleged offer.der

would have been tried by the British Jourt in the foreign

country in which his offence is alleged to have been con-

mitted, so far as that law relates to the criminelity of

the act alleged to have been committed, or the nature or

degree of the offence, or the punishment thereof, if the

law differs in those respects from the law in force in

that British possession.