(A.D. 1869
Colonial Prisoners' Removal
32 & 33 VICTORIA A.D. 1869
CHAPTER X
[32 & 33 Vict. c. 10] 441
AN ACT for authorizing the Removal of Prisoners from one Colony to another for the purposes of Punishment.[1]
[Preamble.]
[13th May 1869.]
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as Prisoners Removal Act, 1869.”
2. For the purposes of this Act—
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The Colonial Short title.
Definition of
Colony."
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The term colony shall not include any place within the terms:
United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands, or within [2British India. ] but shall include any planta- tion, territory, or settlement situate elsewhere within Her Majesty's dominions, and subject to the same local govern- ment; and for the purposes of this Act all plantations, territories, and settlements under a central legislature shall be deemed to be one colony under the same local govern-
ment:
The term
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"Governor:"
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Legislative
governor shall include the officer for the time being administering the government of any colony : The term "legislative body" shall mean any house of assembly
or any other body of persons having legislative powers in body." the colony, and where such body of persons consists of two separate houses it shall include both houses, and where there are local legislative bodies as well as a central legis- lative body shall mean the central legislative body only.
[S. 3 rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39. (S.L.R.)]
may be re-
moved from
another for one colony to
purposes of punishment.
4. Any two colonies may, with the sanction of an order of Prisoners Her Majesty in Council, agree for the removal of any prisoners under sentence or order of transportation, imprisonment, or penal servitude from one of such colonies to the other for the purpose of their undergoing in such other colony the whole or any part of their punishment, and for the return of such prisoners to the former colony at the expiration of their punishment, or at such other period as may be agreed upon; upon such terms and subject to such conditions as may seem good to the said colonies. The sanction of the order of Her Majesty in Council may be obtained, in the case of a colony having a legislative body, on an address of such body to Her Majesty, and in the case of any
[1 Am., 47 & 48 Vict. c. 31.
Power to extend to any country in which His Majesty bas jurisdiction, 3 & 4
Geo. 5. c. 16.]
{' Substituted, S.R. & O. 1937 (No. 230) p. 967 (India and Burma); and see
11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 3. s. 5, sch. 2, Pt. I.]
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