H.B.M. SUBJECTS IN CHINA AND COREA
complainant to pay all or part of the expenses of the prosecution, the amount being specified in the order.
(3) In these respective cases the Court may, if it thinks fit, order that the whole or such portion as the Court thinks fit of the expenses so paid be paid over to the complainant or to the accused (as the case may be):
(4) In all cases the reasons of the Court for making any such order
shall be recorded in the Minutes.
death.
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64. Where any person is sentenced by the Supreme Court to suffer Punishment of the punishment of death, the Judge shall forthwith send a report of the sentence, with a copy of the Minutes of Proceedings and notes of evidence in the case, and with any observations he thinks fit, to His Majesty's Minister in China or Corea as the case may be.
The sentence shall not be carried into execution without the direction of His Majesty's Minister in writing under his hand..
If His Majesty's Minister does not direct that the sentence of death be carried into exécution, he shall direct what punishment in lieu of the punishment of death is to be inflicted on the person convicted, and the person convicted shall be liable to be so punished accordingly..
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punishments.
65. (1) The Judge of the Supreme Court may by general order, Prisons and approved by the Secretary of State, prescribe the manner in which and the prisons in China or Corea at which punishments passed by any Court or otherwise awarded under this Order are to be carried into execution.
(2) The warrant of any Court shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed to receive and detain the person therein named in any prison so prescribed.
(3) For the purposes of this Article "China" includes places within the limits of the Weihaiwei Order in Council, 1901.
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66. (1) Where an offender is sentenced to imprisonment, and the Imprisonment Supreme Court thinks it expedient that the sentence be carried into effect Majesty's within His Majesty's dominions, and the offender is accordingly, under dominions. Section 7 of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, sent for imprisonment to a place in His Majesty's dominions, the place shall be either Hongkong, or a place in some other part of His Majesty's dominions, the Govern- ment whereof consents that offenders may be sent thither under this Article. (2) The Supreme Court may, by warrant under the hand of a Judge and the seal of the Court, cause the offender to be sent to Hongkong, or other such place as aforesaid, in order that the sentence may be there earried into effect accordingly.
(3) The warrant shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed to receive and detain the person therein named, and to carry him to and deliver him up at the place named, according to the warrant..
67.-(1) A Judge of the Supreme Court may, if he thinks fit, Mitigation of punishments. report to the Secretary of State or to the Minister in China or in Corea, as the case may be, recommending a mitigation or remission of any punishment awarded by any Court, and thereupon the punishment may be mitigated or remitted by the Secretary of State or Minister.
(2) Nothing in this Order shall affect His Majesty's prerogative of pardon.
Inquests.i.
68.-(1) The Court shall have and discharge all the powers and Inquests. duties appertaining to the office of Coroner in England, in relation to deaths of British subjects happening in the district of the Court.
(2) The Court may also exercise the said powers in relation to deaths of any persons having happened at sea on board British ships
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