FOREIGN JURISDICTION (EXPENSES) ORDINANCE

FOREIGN JURISDICTION (EXPENSES) ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

FOREIGN JURISDICTION (EXPENSES) ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 223

REVISED EDITION 1964

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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
tinder the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts.

(Amended, 50 of 1911, and 62 of 1911, Schedule)

[3rd December, 1889.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign Jurisdiction
(Expenses) Ordinance.

(Amended, 50 of 1911; 62 of 1911, Schedule, and 5 of

1924, s. 6)

2. Where any person who is a native of or ordinarily resides in the
Colony has committed an offence in any country or place out of Her
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 Her
Majesty in Council made in pursuance thereof, the expenses of the
removal of the prisoner to the 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 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.

(Amended, 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911, and 62 of 1911, Schedule)
Originally 30 of 1889. (Cap. 223, 1950.) 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 62 of 1911. 5 of 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 30 of 1889. (Cap. 223, 1950.) 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 62 of 1911. 5 of 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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