FOREIGN JURISDICTION (EXPENSES) ORDINANCE

FOREIGN JURISDICTION (EXPENSES) ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 223.

FOREIGN JURISDICTION (EXPENSES).

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 juris-
diction (Expenses) Ordinance.

2. Where any person who 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 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 trans-
mitted to the Colonial Secretary under the hand and seal of
the judge, magistrate, or officer acting or exercising juris-
diction in the country or place where the criminal lunatic
was tried, and, in the case of expenses incurred in the main-
tenance of such lunatic during imprisonment or confinement,
under the hand of the head officer of the prison or place of
confinement.
Originally 30 of 1889. Fraser 8 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, vide 53 & 54 Vict. C. 37.

Originally 30 of 1889. Fraser 8 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, vide 53 & 54 Vict. C. 37.

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