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Privy Council Capital Sentences, Appeal.
haws of the Virgin Islands.
PRIVY COUNCIL (CAPITAL SENTENCES APPEAL RULES MADE BY THE GOVERNOR ON JANUARY 26, 1946 REGARDING THE PROCEDURE TO BE OBSERVED FOR DEALING WITH APPLI- CATIONS FROM OR ON BEHALF OF PERSONS UNDER SEN- TENCE OF DEATH FOR SPECIAL LEAVE TO APPEAL TO THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.
1. SHORT TITLE. These Rules may be cited as the Privy Council (Capital Sentences) Appeal Rules.
2. PROCEDURE ON APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL LEAVE TO APPEAL. (a) If intimation is received from or on behalf of a person condemned to death that it is intended to apply to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for special leave to appeal, the execution will be postponed and a date, three weeks later, will be fixed, before which proof must be furnished to the Administrator that the necessary instructions and funds have been sent by air mail to a firm of solicitors in London and the necessary papers by registered ordinary mail. The con- demned person and his adviser will be informed of the date so fixed and the papers and funds which must be sert; and also, where the applicant indicates his intention of applying in forma pauperis, of the procedure relating to such applications as set out in Rule 4 below. They will be informed at the same time that unless the application for special leave is lodged in the Privy Council Office- before a further date fixed by the Secretary of State and communicated to the firm of solicitors intimation will be received from the Colonial Office, and the execution will not be further postponed.
NOTE. (i) If sentences of death have been passed on more than one person in the same case, and if intimation is received from, or on behalf of, only one or more but not all of them of an intention to apply for leave to appeal to the Privy Council, the execution of the sentence will be postponed not only in the case of the person or persons from whom, er on whose behalf, such intimation has been received but also in the case of the other person or persons from whom, or on whose behalf, no such intimation has been received.
NOTE. (i) The necessary funds will be a minimum of 50 guineas if one counsel is engaged, but will be 80 to 100 guineas if the record is bulky or more than one counsel is engaged. The applicant and his
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