17 & 48 VIOT.] Colonial Prisoners Removal
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Act, 1884.
CHAPTER 31.
An Act to make further provision respecting the removal A.D. 1884.
of Prisoners and Criminal Lunatics from Her Majesty's possessions out of the United Kingdom. [28th July 1884.]
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WHEREAS it is expedient to provido for the removal of prisoners undergoing sentence, and of criminal lunatics from one British possession to another British possession, or to the United Kingdom:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty,”
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by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and' Cominons, in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the samo, as follows:
Preliminary,
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1. This Act may be cited as the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, Short title. 1881.
Prisoners Removal.
2. Where as regards a prisoner undergoing sentence of imprison- Removal of ment in any British possession for any offence it appears to the prisoners removing authority herein-after mentioned either—
from British possessions
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(a) that it is likely that the life of the prisoner will be in certain
endangered or his health permanently injured by further imprisonment in such British possession; or,
(b) that the prisoner belonged, at the time of committing the said offence, to the Royal Navy or to Her Majesty's regular military forcos; or,
(c) that the offeneo was committed wholly or partly beyond the
limits of the said British possession; or,
(d) that by reason of there boing no prison in the said British possession in which the prisoner can properly undergo his [Publio,–37.]
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