Qatar Order in Council, 1938 [‎6r] (11/32)

20. (i) Where an offender convicted before any Court under
this Order is sentenced to imprisonment, and the Political Resi
dent 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 the
Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Bombay, or a place in some other 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, sufferance, or other lawful means
His Majesty has jurisdiction, provided that if a person is not a
British subject he shall only be sent under this Article to a place
in His Majesty's dominions^
(2) A warrant under the hand and seal of the Political Resi
dent 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.
21.— (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 Qatar, 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 Qatar.
(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 the sentence which could be passed in India if
the crime were tried there.
(4) The foregoing provisions of this Article shall be deemed
as well as the provisions of Article 12 (2) above to be adapta
tions, for the purposes of this Order and of the Foreign Jurisdic
tion Act, 1890, of the following enactments, namely: —
The Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849;
The Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, i860;
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, Part XIII;
and those enactments shall apply accordingly, and be admin
istered in Qatar.
22. Where a person is convicted of an offence the Court
before which he is convicted may, if it thinks fit at any time
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