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Coll 25/36 'Orders in Council: Revision of Persian Gulf Orders-in-Council' [‎18v] (38/476)

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The record is made up of 1 file (189 folios). It was created in 27 Feb 1948-2 Jan 1950. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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of the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. may, by warrant under his hand and seal, order any
person convicted by the Court and sentenced to imprisonment to be sent to
and detained at any prison within the limits of this Order or the Kuwait,
Qatar, Muscat or Frucial States Orders specified therein. Such prison may
be a place appointed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) of
Article 20, or a place appointed temporarily and for the purpose of the
particular case.
(2) The warrant of the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. or the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. acting
under the authority of the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. shall be sufficient authority to
any person to whom it is directed to carry and deliver up the person r-erein
named and to receive and detain him at the prison named according to the
warrant.
(3) In any case where a person sentenced to imprisonment for a term
exceeding one month is detained in a prison temporarily appointed in accord
ance with the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 20, the Court by which
the sentence was awarded shall report the case and the circumstances thereof
to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. for his directions.
(4) Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 22, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
upon the receipt of such report may make an order under paragraph (1) of
this Article, or may direct that the sentence shall continue to be served at the
place where the prisoner is at present detained.
^2.—<1) Where an offender convicted before any Court under this Order
is sentenced to imprisonment, and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. proceeding under
section 7 of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, authority in that behalf
being hereby given to him, considers it expedient that the sentence should be
carried into effect elsewhere than within the limits of this Order, and the
offender is accordingly sent for imprisonment to a place outside the limits
of this Order, the place shall be either a place in some part of His Majesty’s
dominions the Government whereof consents that offenders may be sent
thither under this Article, or a place in which by treaty, grant, usage, suffer
ance, or other lawful means His Majesty has jurisdiction.
(2) A warrant under the hand and seal of the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. shall be
sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed to receive and detain
the person therein named and to carry him to and deliver him up at the
place named according to the warrant.
23.—(1) In cases of murder or culpable homicide, if either the death or
the criminal act which wholly or partly caused the death happened in
Bahrein, a Court acting under this Order shall have the like jurisdiction over
any person to whom this Order applies who is charged either as a principal
offender or as an abettor as if both such criminal act and the death had
happened in Bahrein.
(2) In the case of any offence committed on the high seas or within the
Admiralty jurisdiction by any person who at the time of committing such
offence was on board a British ship, or by any British subject on board a
foreign ship to which he did not belong, the Court shall, subject to the
provisions of this Order, have jurisdiction over such person as if the offence
had been committed within its jurisdiction.
(3) In cases tried under this Article no different sentence can be passed
from that which could have been passed in India if the crime had been
tried there on 14th August, 1947.
(4) The foregoing provisions of this Article shall be deemed as well as
the provisions of Article 12 (2) above to be adaptations, for the purposes

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Correspondence relating to the revision of the five Orders in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : Muscat, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and The Trucial States A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . The revision was a result of Indian Independence and the transfer of power in the Gulf from the Government of India to HM Government of the United Kingdom. The papers consist of interdepartmental discussion over the amendments to the five orders in council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , principally between officials at the Commonwealth Relations Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Copies of the finalised orders are contained in the file, as follows:

Also included in the file is a letter, dated 15 December 1948, from Edward Evans & Co., Consulting Engineers and Chartered Patent Agents, enquiring about patent in protection in Bahrain (folio 84).

Folios 2-10 are internal office notes.

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1 file (189 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 191; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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