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‘File 15/15 Rules & Regulations Nationality Laws of Iraq & Saudi Arabia’ [11v] (22/162)
The record is made up of 1 file (80 folios). It was created in 14 Sep 1926-5 Jan 1943. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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1 he Director-General Civil Jails may also suspend a Superintendent for an offence
committed against this Law pending a reference to the Ministry of Interior who shall decide
what action shall he taken. The Minister ot Interior may impose upon Superintendents who
are guilty of offences under thisi Law a fine not exceeding 15 days' forfeiture of pay.
The right to dismiss jail officials other than officers on special contracts shall rest with
the Minister of Interior.
5. Superintendents of jails may deal with any offence committed by jail officials below
the rank of an Assistant Jailor the maximum prescribed punishment, for which offence does
not exceed a fine of seven day's pay. Mamur> in charge of jails may deal with any offence
committed by jail officials below the rank of Assistant Jailor the maximum prescribed
penalty for which offence does not exceed a fine of two days' pay.
Superintendents and Mamurs in charge of jails shall remand to the Director-General
Civil Jails for trial, Jail officials who are charged with offences which do not fall within their
jurisdiction or which they consider should be dealt with by the Director-General Civil Jail-j
Appeals against the decision of the Superintendent and Mamur in charge of jails shall
lie to the Director-General Civil Jails. The Director-General Civil Jails shall not hear
appeals unless they are submitted within two months of the date of the award of the penalty.
The Minister of Interior may review any decision passed by the Director-General Civil Jails
or a Superintendent or Mamur or a jail official and shall have power on such review to increase,
reduce or quash any sentence awarded or alter the nature thereof.
Nothing in this Law shall preclude the Courts from tiying any jail official for an offence
against any other law for the time being in force.
6. Xo person shall be imprisoned or detained in jail without a warrant or written order
signed by a competent authority according to law.
7. There shall be five classes of prisoner; namely : —
(i) Those sentenced to Penal Servitude
(ii) Those sentenced to R. I.
(Hi) Those sentenced to S. I.
(iv) Those sentenced to be retained in a Reformatory School.
(y) Civil Debtors.
The Minister of Interior shall issue Eegulations as to the form of work to be carried out
by each class of prisoners.
8. Superintendents and Mamurs of Jails may promote a prisoner to the rank of overseer
or convict warder.
9. Prisoners other than persons imprisoned for civil debt shall be entitled, subject to
the provisions of Article 13 thereof, to the iollowng remissions : —
(i) Convict warder ... ... ... ... 7 days p.m.
(it) Convict Overseer ... ... ... ..6
(Hi) Convicts employed in clerical work ... ... 5
(iv) Convict night watchmen and those normally employed on
religious holidays . . ... ... 4
(v) Convicts not included in the above ... 3
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10. Penal Servitude for life shall be considered as a sentence for a term of 20 years
11. Any prisoner who commits an offence against any regulations issued under this Law
shall be considered as having committed an offence against this Law. The nenalt >
mentioned in Schedule A may be imposed tor breaches of this Law. 108
Nothing in this Law shall prevent prisoners being tried by the Courts for offences against
any other Law for the time being in force. 0
12. Superintendents and Mamurs in charge of jails shall daily enquire into a v
complaints or offences which may be brought to their notice. '
13. Superintendents and Mamurs mav deal with such offences under this L- \
committed by prisoners as the Minister of Interior shall determine. Superintendents
may award any one of the penalties mentioned in the 2nd part of Schedule A for any offence
against this Law committed by a pnsioner. Mamurs may award any one of the Penalties
mentioned in the 1st part of Schedule A for any offence against this committed by a prisoner.
Superintendents and Mamurs shall remand to the Mutasarrif of the Liwa in which the
jail is situated charges against prisoners which do not fall within their iurisdiVHnn nr
which they consider should be dealt with by the Mutasarrif.
14. A Superintendent and Mamur in . harge of a jail shall report to the Mutasarrif
at once cases against prisoners which are to be dealt with by him.
15. The Mutasarrif of the Liwa in which the jail is situated may award any of the
punishments mentioned in Schedule A hereof for any offences committed bv prisoners
against this Law.
He shall be responsible that there is no nudue delay in the disposal of cases
for him by Superintendents and Mamurs in charge of jails.
The Mutasarrif shall visit the jail at least once a month and shall investigate all
complaints by prisoners.
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The file contains a public notice and the following correspondence about Iraqi and Iranian nationality laws:
- A circular memorandum dated 1927 from the British High Commissioner for Iraq, Baghdad, about the effect of the Iraq Nationality Law upon foreigners born in Iraq, so that 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. , Bahrain and others could give further publication to the fact that the Iraq Government had provisionally extended up to 31 December 1927, the period during which renunciation of Iraq nationality could be made by persons already of age, who were born in Iraq and whose fathers were born and resident in Iraq;
- A public notice in English and Arabic dated 1927, issued by 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. , Bahrain, advising eligible Iraqis of the extended period during which they might relinquish Iraq nationality;
- A memorandum from the Political Officer, Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Sharjah dated 1940, enquiring about the liability to conscription of certain travellers from Bahrain to Iraq and Iran, under the Iraq and Iranian nationality laws of 1924 and 1929 respectively;
- A circular letter and despatch from the British Ambassador to Iraq, Baghdad, in 1942, about persuading the Iraqi Government to lower the 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. fees levied on foreigners living in Iraq, under the Iraq Stamp Law, including an exemption for British and British Indian subjects;
- A letter from 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. , Bahrain dated 1943, enquiring about subjects from the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Sheikdoms living in Iraq, also being exempted from Iraq 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. fees.
The file also contains English translations of the following laws and regulations:
- Compilation of laws and regulations issued between 1st January 1924 and 31st December, 1925 , published by the Government of Iraq, Ministry of Justice, Baghdad, 1926;
- The Hijaz (Hejaz) Nationality Law, 1926;
- The Saudi Arabian Nationality Regulation No.3, 1938;
- Iraqi Law No.40 of 1942, amending the Iraq Stamp Law No.30 of 1922.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (80 folios)
- Arrangement
File papers are arranged chronologically. They are followed by file notes (folio 80) which include a list of documents in the file, together with their unique document reference number to help identify them. The list sometimes records the earlier, secondary folio number of the document also, to help locate it in the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: numbered 1-37, 37A, 38-81. The numbering is written in pencil in the top right corner of the folio and encircled. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the file cover (f 1) and ends on the inside cover at the back of the file (f 81). Folio 37A is blank. In an earlier and incomplete secondary foliation sequence, folios 57 to 79 are also numbered 6 to 29 in pencil in the top right corner.
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- IOR/R/15/2/1457
- Title
- ‘File 15/15 Rules & Regulations Nationality Laws of Iraq & Saudi Arabia’
- Pages
- 2r:37v, 37r:37v, 38r:57v
- Author
- Government of Iraq
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