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H.B.M. SUBJECTS IN CHINA AND COREA

aforesaid, any of His Majesty's Courts in China or Corea within the jurisdiction whereof he is found may cause him to be apprehended and brought before it, and may take the preliminary examination and commit him for trial.

(2) If the Court before which the accused is brought is a Provincial Court, the Court shall report to the Supreme Court the pendency of the

case.

The Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding anything in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined accordingly.

(3) The provisions of this Order relative to offences, and proceedings in criminal matters, shall in all respects, as far as may be, extend and apply to every such case, in like manner as if the offence had been com- mitted in China or Corea,

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81. Where a British subject, being in Hongkong, is charged with Jurisdiction having committed, either before or after the commencement of this Court at Order, any crime or offence within any British, Chinese, or Coreau ship Hongkong. at such a distance as aforesaid, the Supreme Court at Hongkong shafl have and may exercise authority and jurisdiction with respect to the crime or offence as fully as if it had been committed in Hongkong.

of deserters.

82. His Majesty's Minister in China or Corea, any Judge of the Apprehension Supreme Court, any Consular officer in China or Coren, or the Governor of Hongkong, on receiving satisfactory information that any soldier, sailor, marine, or other person belonging to any of His Majesty's military or naval forces, has deserted therefrom, and has concealed himself in any British ship at such a distance as aforesaid, may, in pursuance of such information, issue his warrant for a search after and apprehension of such deserter, and on being satisfied on investigation that any person so apprehended is such a deserter, shall cause him to be, with all convenient speed, taken and delivered over to the nearest military station of His Majesty's forces, or to the officer in command of a ship of war of His Majesty serving in China or Corea, as the case may require.

Deportation.

83.-(1) Where it is proved that there is reasonable ground to Deportation. apprehend that a British subject is about to commit a breach of the public peace or that the acts or conduct of a British subject are or is likely to produce or excite to a breach of the public peace-the Court may, if it thinks fit, cause him to be brought Lefore it, and require him to give security to the satisfaction of the Court to keep the peace, or for his future good behaviour, as the case may require.

(2) Where a British subject is convicted of an offence before the Court, the Court may, if it thinks fit, require him to give security to the satisfaction of the Court for his future good behaviour, and for that purpose may (if need be) cause him to be brought before the Court.

(3) In either of the foregoing cases, if the person required to give security fails to do so, the Court may order that he be deported from China or Corea to such place as the Court directs.

(4) The place shall be a place in some part (if any) of His Majesty's dominious to which the person belongs, or the Government of which consents to the reception of persons deported under this Order.

(5) A Provincial Court shall report to the Supreme Court any order of deportation made by it and the grounds thereof, before the order is executed. The Supreme Court may reverse the order, or may confirm it with or without variation, and in case of confirmation, shall direct it to be carried into effect.