FOREIGN JURISDICTION (EXPENSES) ORDINANCE, 1889

FOREIGN JURISDICTION (EXPENSES) ORDINANCE, 1889

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.

[3rd December, 1889.]

l. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign Jurisdiction
(Expenses) Ordinance, 1889.

2. Where any person who is a native of or ordinarily
resides in this Colony has committed an offertce in any
country or place out of His Majesty's dominions, and such
person has been tried aud either convicted or acquitted on
the ground of insanity before any court, judge, magistrate,
or officer acting or exercising jurisdiction within or in relation
to any such country place over such person by virtue of
the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts of the Imperial Parliament or
any Order of His Majesty in Council made in pursuance
hereof, the expenses of the removal of the prisoner to this
Colony, or to the place where he is to undergo his sentence
or be confined as a criminal Iunatic, and of his maintenance
during imprisonment or confinement, and any other expenses
properly incident to hls conviction or acquittal as aforesaid
shal, 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 im-
prisonment or confinement, under the hand of the head
officer of the prison or place of confinement.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord, 1923.
[Originally No. 30 of 1889. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Payment of expenses of trial, etc., of native, etc., of the Colony convicted or acquitted on ground of insanity of offence under Foreign Jurisdiction Acts. 53 & 54 Vict.c. 37.

[Originally No. 30 of 1889. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Payment of expenses of trial, etc., of native, etc., of the Colony convicted or acquitted on ground of insanity of offence under Foreign Jurisdiction Acts. 53 & 54 Vict.c. 37.

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