ملف رقم ٩٥١ لسنة ١٩١٢ الجزء ١ "المرسوم الملكي البريطاني للبحرين" [ظ‎‎١‎٣‎٥] (٤٢٤/٢٨١)

12. The enactments described in the first schedule to the Foreign Jurisdiction
Act, 1890, shall apply to Bahrein, as if it were a British colony or possession, but
subject to the provisions of this Order, and to the exceptions, adaptations, and
modifications following, that is to say :—
(i.) The Political Besident in the Persian Gulf is hereby substituted for the
Governor of a colony or British possession, and the Chief Court is hereby substituted
for a Superior Court or Supreme Court, and the District Court for a Magistrate or
Justice of the Peace of a colony or British possession.
(ii.) For the portions of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 and 1867, referred to
in the said Schedule, shall be substituted Part XIII of the Merchant Shipping
Act 1891.
(iii.) In Section 51 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1874, the Court of the
Political Agent is substituted for a Court of Probate in a colony.
(iv.) With respect to the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881—
(o.) So much of the 4th and 5th sections of the said Act as relates to sending
a report of the issue of a warrant, together with the information, or a copy thereof, or
to the sending of a certificate of committal and report of a case, or to the information
to be given by a Magistrate to a fugitive, shall be excepted, and in lieu of such infor
mation the person acting as the Magistrate shall inform the fugitive that in the
British possession or protectorate to which he may be conveyed he has the right to
apply for a writ of habeas corpus or other like process.
( 6 .) So much of the 6 th section of the said Act as requires the expiration of
fifteen days before issue of warrant shall be excepted.
(c.) The Political Besident shall not be bound to return a fugitive offender to a
British possession unless satisfied that the proceedings to obtain his return are taken
with the consent of the Governor of that possession.
(d) For the purposes of Part II of the said Act, Bahrein, Muscat, the Persian
Coast and Islands, and all other places on the shores of the Persian Gulf or the Gulf
of Oman, Aden, and British India, shall be deemed to be one group of British
possessions.
13. Where, by virtue of any Imperial Act, or of this Order, or otherwise, any
provisions of any Imperial Acts, or of any Law in force in India, or of any Orders in
Council other than this Order, are applicable within the limits of this Order, or any
forms, Begulations, or procedure prescribed or established by or under such Act,
Law, or Order, are made applicable for any purpose of this Order, or any other Order
relating to Bahrein, such Acts, Laws, Orders, forms, Begulations, or procedure may
l)e construed or used with such alterations and adaptations not affecting the substance
as may be necessary having regard to local circumstances, and anything required to
be done by, to, or before any Court, Judg«, officer, or authority may be done by, to,
or before a Court, Judge, officer, or authority having the like or analogous functions,
or by, to, or before any officer designated by the Secretary of State or by the Court
(as the case may require) for that purpose; and in case any difficulty occurs in the
application the Secretary of State, or with his previous or subsequent assent the
Governor-General of India in Council, may direct by, to, or before whom and in what
manner anything is to be done, and such Act, Law, Order, form, Begulation, or
jwoccdure shall be construed accordingly.
Where under any such Imperial Act, Law, or Order, any publication is
required to be made, as respects any judicial proceeding in any “Gazette” or
otherwise, such publication shall be made by such mode as the Court shall think fit
to direct.
Paiit III.— Criminal.
14. —(1.) Subject to the other provisions of this Order, the Code of Criminal
Procedure and the other enactments relating to the administration of criminal justice
in British India for the time being slrBl be applicable to Bahrein. The Political
Besident in the Persian Gulf shall hold and form a Court, to be called the Chief
Court, uhich shall have all the powers of a High Court of Judicature; the Political
Agent at Bahrein shall be deemed to be the District Magistrate and Sessions Judge;
the Judicial Assistant to the Political Besident shall be deemed to be the Additional
District Magistrate and Additional Sessions Judge ; and the powers of the Governor-
General in Council and of the Local Government under those enactments shall be