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ANNEX A TO XCC(78)27

Extract from the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884

Section 2 reads:

Prisoners Removal

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Where as regards a prisoner undergoing sentence

of imprisonment in any British possession for any offence it appears to the removing authority herein-after

mentioned either

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(a) that it is likely that the life of the prisoner

will be 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 forces;

(c) that the offence was committed wholly or partly

beyond the limits of the said British possession;

or,

(d) that by reason of there being no prison in the

said British possession in which the prisoner

can properly undergo his sentence or otherwise

the removal of the prisoner is expedient for

his safer custody or for more efficiently

carrying his sentence into effect; or,

(e) that the prisoner belongs to a class of persons

who under the law of the said British possession

are subject to removal under this Act;

in any such case the removing authority may, subject neverthe-

less to the regulations in force under this Act, order such

prisoner to be removed to any British possession or to the

United Kingdom to undergo his sentence or the residue thereof."

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