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CHINA AND JAPAN ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1-81
Court for Japan, Her Majesty's Minister in Japau may appoint a fit person to be the Acting Judge or to be the Acting Assistant-Judge (as the case may require).
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Vice-Admiralty Jurisdiction.
11.-Any roceeding taken in China or Japan against one of Her Majesty's vessels, or the office commanding the same, as such, in respect of any claim cognisable in a Court of V.ce-Admiralt, shall be taken only in the Supreme Court or in the Court for Japan, under the Vice-Admiralty jurisdiction thereof, respectively.
Pending Proceedings.
12.-Nothing in tl is Order shall affect ans suit or proceedings, civil or criminal, pending at the commencement of this Odder, with reference either to the original procedings th rein, or to any a peal therein, or otherwise; save that all suits aud proceedings, civil or criminal, instituted or taken in the district of the Consulate of Kanagawa bere an i pending at the commencement of this Order are hereby trans- ferred to the jurisdiction of the Court for Japan; and the same may be carried on and shall be tried, heard, and determine 1, in and by the Court for Japan, as nearly as may be, as it the same had been institute or taken in the district of the Consulate of Kanagawa after the commencemen' of this Order.
Ant the Most Honourable the Marquis of Salisbury, and the Right Honourable Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, Baronet, two of Her Majesty's Princi, al Secreta- ries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and Lords Comanis- sioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
C. L. PEEL.
THE CHINA AND JAPAN ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1881.
PRESENT:
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS Her Majesty the Queen has power and jurisdiction in relation to Her Majesty's subjects and others in the dominio..s of the Empe or of China and the dominions of th Mikado of Japan:
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Now, therefor, Her Majesty, bv virtue and in exercise of the powers in this be- half by the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1843 to 1878, or otherwise, in Her ve ted, is leased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-
Preliminary.
1. This order ma be cited as the China und Japan Order in Council, 1881.
2. This order shill, except as otherwise expressed, commence and take effect from an 1 immediat ly after the 31st day of December, 1881, which time is in this Order referred to as the commencement of this O, der.
3.-In this Order-
"China" means the dominions of the Emperor of China:
Japan" means the dominions of the Mikado of Japan :
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Minister means superior Diplomatic Representative, whether Ambassador,
Envoy, Minister Plenipotentiary, or Chargé d'Affaires :
"Consular Officer" includes every officer in Her Majesty's Consular Service, whether Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, or person authorised to act in an such capacity in China or in Ja an;
““British subject means a subject of Her Majesty, waether by birth or by
naturalisation :
Foreigner" means a subject of the Emperor of China or of the Mikado of Japan, or a subject or citizen of any other State in amity with Her Majesty:
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