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FOREIGN JURISDICTION.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1909. No. 754.

THE SIAM ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1909.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of June, 1909.

Lord President.

Lord Steward.

Earl Carringtou.

Earl Grey.

PRESENT:

Sir Frederick M. Darley.

Mr. Herbert Samuel. Mr. C. E. H. Hobhouse. Mr. Russell Rea.

Whereas by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, His Majesty the King has power anl jurisdiction within the dominions of the King of Siam:

And whereas the exercise of the power and jurisdiction aforesaid is now regulated by the Siam Order in Council, 1906:

And whereas by a Treaty between His Majesty the King and His Majesty the King of Siam, signed in Bangkok on the 10th day of March, 1909, the States of Kelantan, Trengganu, Kedah, Perlis, and the adjacent islands, were transferred to the Government of His Majesty, the frontiers of the said territories being defined in the Boundary Protocol annexed to the said Treaty:

And whereas by Article of the said Treaty it was agreed that the jurisdiction of the Siamese International Courts, established by Article 8 of the Treaty of the 3rd September, 1883, between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the King of Siam, should, under the conditions defined in the Jurisdiction Protocol annexed to the said recited Treaty of the 10th March, 1909, and printed in the Schedule to this Order, be extended to all British subjects in Siam registered at the British Consulates before the date of the said Treaty, and that this system should come to an end, and the jurisdiction of the International Courts should be trans- ferred to the ordinary Siamese Courts after the promulgation and the coming into force of the Siamese codes, namely, the Penal Code, the Civil and Commercial Codes, the Codes of Procedure, and the Law for organization of Courts, and that all other British subjects in Siam should be subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary Siamese Courts under the conditions defined in the said Jurisdiction Protocol.

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by "The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890," or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby

ordered as follows:-

I. This Order may be cited as "The Siam Order in Council, 1909,” and shall be read as one with the "Siam Order in Council, 1906," hereinafter called the "Principal Order.'

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2. From and after the commencement of this Order the Principal Order shall, ex- cept as regards any judicial matters pending in any Court established by the Principal Order on the day above mentioned, cease to be in force and operation in the States of Kelantan, Tringganu, Kedah, Perlis, and the adjacent islands, being the territories transferred to the control of His Majesty's Government, the frontiers whereof are defined by the Boundary Protocol annexed to the said Treaty.

3. With respect to any civil or criminal case arising within the limits of the Principal Order, elsewhere than in the districts referred to in Article 2, between