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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH AUGUST, 1887.

19. Rules and forms of procedure in civil and criminal matters in any Court acting under the Siam Orders in Council may, from time to time, be made and prescribed by the Consul-General, subject to the provisions of the said Orders; but no such rules or forms shall come into operation until they have been approved, with or without alteration, by a Secretary of State; provided that-

(1.) Any such rules or forms, if and as provisionally approved, with or without alteration, by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements, shall have effect pending up- proval or disapproval by Secretary of State.

(2.) Until rules and forms have been made and approved, or provisionally approved, under this Article in relation to any matter, any rules or forms heretofore in force or use in the Court of the Consul-General, or in the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements, or in the Con- sular Courts of Shanghai or Japan, inay be observed and used in any Court acting under this Order, with such modifications as circumstances require.

20. For all the purposes of the Siam Orders in Council the expression "British subject" includes. every person for the time being properly enjoying Her Majesty's protection in Siam, in so far as by Treaty, Capitulation. grant, usage, sufferance, or other lawful means, Her Majesty has jurisdiction in Siam in relation to such persons.

And the Right Honourable the Earl Granville and the Right Honourable the Earl of Kimberley, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein as to then may respectively appertain.

C. L. PEEL.

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,

The 29th day of November, 1884.

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

LORD PRESIDENT

EARL GRANVILLE

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LORD STEWARD

MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN

HEREAS by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means. Her Majesty the Queen has power and jurisdiction, in relation to Her Majesty's subjects, and others, within the domi- nions of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar:

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NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, by virtue, and in exercise of, the powers in this behalf by. the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1843 to 1878, or otherwise, in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council; to order and it is hereby ordered as follows:-

PART I-PRELIMINARY,

Short Title.

1. This Order may be cited as the Zanzibar Order in Council of 1884.

Division of Order into Parts.

2. This Order is divided into Parts as follows:

Part

I. Preliminary.

II. Application and effect of Order.

III. Application of certain portions of the law of British India.

V. Civil matters.

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IV. Criminal matters.

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VI. Vice-Admiralty.

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VII. Zanzibar and Foreign Subjects and Tribunals.

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IX. Procedure.

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XI. Miscellaneous.

XII. General.

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VIII. Registration of British Subjects.

X. Registration of Documents.

Repeal.

3. The Order in Council, dated the 9th day of August, 1866, for the regulation of Consular jurisdiction in the dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar, the Zanzibar Order in Council of 1881, and the Zanzibar (Indian Penal Code) Order in Council, 1882, are hereby repealed, subject to the exceptions and qualifications in this Order mentioned,