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.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign jurisdiction
(Expenses) Ordinance, 1889.

2. Where any person wrio is a native of or ordinarily resides
in this Colony has committed an offence in any, country or
place out of His Majesty's dominions, and such person has
been.tried and 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 or 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 thereof, 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
crirninal 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.
[Originally No. 30 of 1889.] 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.] 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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