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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH SEPTEMBER, 1884.

(2.) Nothing in this Act shall affect any power to recover the expenses of removing er returning any prisoner or criminal lunatic from the property of such prisoner or

riminal lunatic or otherwise.

12. If the legislature of a British possession pass any law-

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A.D. 1884.

Power of legislature of British possession

(a.) for determining the authority by whom and the manner in which any to pass laws for

jurisdiction, power, or concurrence under this Act is to be exercised or effect. given; or,

(b.) for payment of the costs incurred in the removal, maintenance, return, or

sending back after discharge of a prisoner or criminal lunatic; or,

(c.) for dealing in such possession with prisoners or criminal lunatics removed

thereto in pursuance of this Act; or,

(d.) for making any class of prisoners subject to removal under this Act;

or

(e.) otherwise in any manner for the carrying of this Act or any part thereof

into effect as regards the said possession,

it shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council to direct that such law or any part thereof shall with or without modification or alteration be recognised and given effect to throughout Her Majesty's dominions and on the high seas as if it were part of this

Act.

13.--(1.) It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council from time to time to make Power as to making Orders for the purposes of this Act, and to revoke and vary any Order so made, and and revocation of

very Order so made shall while it is in force have the same effect as if it were enacted in this Act.

Orders in Council.

(2.) An Order in Council made for the purposes of this Act shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after it is made if Parliament is then in session, or, if not, as soon as may be after the commencement of the then next session of Parliament.

14. This Act shall extend to the Channel Islands and Isle of Man as if they were Application of Act part of England and the United Kingdom.

to Channel Islands and Isle of Man.

15. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council from time to time to direct that Application of Act this Act shall apply, as if, subject to the conditions, exceptions, and qualifications (if to place under ay) contained in the Order, any place out of Her Majesty's dominions in which Her Acts.

foreign jurisdiction Majesty has jurisdiction, and which is named in the Order, were a British possession and part of Her Majesty's dominions, and to provide for carrying into effect such ap- See 41 & 42 Vict. plication.

c. 67,

44 & 45 Vict. c. 58.

16.--(1.) Nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of the Army Act, 1881. Savings. (2.) This Act shall not affect any agreement made either before or after the pass-

g of this Act under the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1869, nor any provisions 32 & 33 Viet. c. 10. ntained in the Act of the session of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-one, intituled "An Act to authorise the removal from India of insane persons charged with offences, and to give better effect to inqui-

itions of lunacy taken in India."

prisoners and

17. This Act shall apply to a prisoner who has been convicted, and to a criminal Application of Act matic who has become a criminal lunatic, before the passing of this Act. in like man- to existing ras if he had been convicted, and become a criminal lunatic after the commencement criminal lunatics. this Act.

18. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions Definitions. we the following meanings; that is to say,

The expression "British possession" does not include any place within the United ingdom, the Isle of Mau, or the Channel Islands, but includes all other territories and es being part of Her Majesty's dominions, and all territories and places within Her Majesty's dominions which are not part of India and are under one legislature shall be ined to be one British possession, and any part of India under a Governor or Lieutenant overnor shall be deemed to be one British possession.

The expression "India" means all territories and places within Her Majesty's do- tations which are subject to the Governor General of India in Council.

The expression "legislature" where there are local legislatures, as well as a central gislature, means the central legislature only, and in every part of India means the Gov-

∙ruor General in Council.