'File 18/68 I (D 114) Kuwait Order in Council' [‎95r] (204/534)

•contrary intention appears, have the same respective meanings as
in this Order.
5.—(1) In this Order words importing the plural or the singular
may be construed as referring to one person or thing or to more than
one person or thing, and words importing the masculine as referring
to the faminine, as the case may require.
(2) Where, this Order confers any power or imposes any duty,
then, unless a contrary intention appears, the power may be exercis-
■ed and the duty shall be performed from time to time as occasion
requires.
(3) Where this Order confers a power, or imposes a duty
on, or with respect to, a holder of an office as such, then, un
less a contrary intention appears, the power may be exercised
and the duty shall be performed by or with respect to, the holder
for the time being of the office or the person temporarily acting for
the holder.
(4) Where this Order confers a power to make any rules,
regulations, or orders, the power shall, unless a contrary intention
appears, be construed as including a power exercisable in the like
manner and subject to the like consent, and conditions, if any, to
rescind, revoke, vary or amend the rules, regulations, or orders.
(5) This article shall apply to the construction of any regu
lations, rules, or orders made under this Order, unless a contrary
intention appears,
6. Where this Order refers to any specified Act or Acts of
Parliament, such reference shall, unless a contrary intention appears,
be deemed to include any Act or Acts amending or substituted
for the same.
7. In the event of the death, incapacity, removal, or absence
from Kuwait of 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. for the time being, all and
every the powers, authorities, and immunities by this Order granted
to him shall, until His Majesty's further pleasure is signified through
the Governor-General of India in Council, be vested in the Poli
tical Resident.
8.—(1) The powers conferred by this Order shall extend to the
persons and matters following, in so far as by Treaty, grant, usage,
sufferance, or other lawful means.
His Majesty, has jurisdiction in relation to such persons
matters, and things, that is to say :—
(1) British subjects, as herein defined, within the limits
of this Order.
(2) Foreigners with respect to whom the Shaikh of Kuwait
and any State, King, Chief or Government who^e
subjects or under whose j rotection they are, have
agreed with His Majesty for, or consented to, the
exercise of jurisdiction by His Majesty.
^3) Kuwait subjects registered in the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. as
being in the regular service of British subjects or
foreigners ; with the proviso that all cases wherein
such Kuwait subjects are concerned shall be dealt
with in accordance with the provisions of Part V of
this Order.
(4) The property and all personal or proprietary rights and
liabilities within the said limits of British subjects
and of foreigners within sub-Article (2) and of Kuwait
subjects within sub-Article (3), whether such persons
are themselves within or without the limits of this
Order.
(5) British ships and ships belonging to foreigners within
sub-Article (2) with their boats, and the persons and
property on board thereof, or belonging thereto,
being within the limits of this Order ; provided that
jurisdiction over foreign ships shpJl not be exercised
otherwise than according to the practice of the
High Court in England in the exercise of jurisdictioa
over foreign ships,
M305FD