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FOREIGN JURISDICTION

No. 8 of 1889.

325

(EXPENSES)..

No. 8 of 1889.

An Ordinance to provide for expenses in relation to persons who have been convicted or acquitted on the ground of insanity before courts under the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts.

[Originally No. 30 of 1889].

[3rd December, 1889.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign Jurisdiction Short title. (Expenses) .Ordinance, 1889.

expenses of

of the

offence

Jurisdiction

c. 37.

2. Where any person who is a native of or ordinarily resides Payment of in this Colony has committed an offence in any country or trial, etc., of place out of His Majesty's dominions, and such person has native, etc., been tried and either convicted or acquitted on the ground of Colony insanity before any court, judge, magistrate, or officer acting convicted or acquitted on or exercising jurisdiction within or in relation to any such

ground of country or place over such person by virtue of the Foreign insanity of Jurisdiction Acts of the Imperial Parliament or any Order of under His Majesty in Council made in pursuance thereof, the expenses Foreign of the removal of the prisoner to this Colony, or to the place Acts. where he is to undergo his sentence or be confined as a 53 & 54 Vict. criminal lunatic, and of his maintenance during imprisonment or confinement, and any other expenses properly incident to his conviction or acquittal as aforesaid, shall, except in so far as the prisoner's effects under the order of the court before which he is tried are sufficient to meet the same, be borne by and paid out of the Treasury: Provided always that no such payment shall be made until a certificate of the amount of such expenses, after deducting the proceeds, if any, of the prisoner's effects, has been transmitted to the Colonial Secretary under the hand and seal of the judge, magistrate, or officer acting or exercising jurisdiction in the country or place where the criminal lunatic was tried, and, in the case of expenses incurred in the maintenance of such lunatic during imprisonment or confinement, under the hand of the head officer of the prison or place of confinement.