File 791/1904 Pt 1 'Orders-in-Council: Persian Coast and Islands' [‎202r] (136/357)

authority there, or to be otherwise dealt with
according to law.
20. An appeal shall not lie against an ordor of
prohibition, or removal, or deportation made
under this Order.
21. If any person subject to criminal juris
diction under this Order does any of the following
things, namely : —
(i.) Wilfully by act or threat obstructs any
Officer of or person executing any process of
the Court in the performance of his duty ; or
(ii.) Within or close to the room or place
where the Court is sitting wilfully misbehaves
in a violent, threatening, or disrespectful j
manner to the disturbance of the Court, or to
the intimidation of suitors or others resorting
thereto ; or
(iii.) Wilfully insults any member of the
Court, or any assessor, or any person acting as
a Clerk or Officer of the Court during his
sitting or attendance in Court, or in his going
to or returning from Court ; or
(iv.) Does any act in relation to the Court
or a Judge thereof, or a matter pending
therein, which, if done in relation to a Superior
Court in England, or in India, would be punish
able as a contempt of such Court, or as a libel
on such Court, or the Judges thereof, or the
administration of justice therein ; such person
shall be liable to be apprehended by order of
the Court with or without warrant, and, on
enquiry and consideration and after the hearing
of any defence which such person may offer,
without further process or trial, to be punished
with a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
(45-97 dollars), or with imprisonment not ex
ceeding twenty-four hours.
A Minute shall be made and kept of every such
case of punishment, recording the facts of the
offence and the extent of the punishment, and a
copy of the Minute shall be forthwith sent to the
Governor-General of India in Council.
Provided that, if the Court thinks fit, instead
of proceeding under the preceding provisions, it
may direct or cause the offender to be tried in
a separate criminal prosecution or proceeding in
which the offender shall be liable to any punish
ment to which he would be liable if the offence
were committed in relation to the Court of a
Sessions Judge in India.
Nothing herein shall interfere with the power
of the Court to remove or exclude persons who
interrupt or obstruct the proceedings of the
Court.
22. If a British subject smuggles or imports
into or exports from the Persian coast and islands
any goods whereon any duty is charged or payable
to the Government of Persia, with intent to evade
payment of the duty on any goods, the importa
tion or exportation whereof is prohibited by law,
he shall be punished with imprisonment for a
term which may extend to two months, or with
fine which may extend to one thousand rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. , or
a sum equal to treble the value of the goods
(whichever shall be the greater), or with both
imprisonment and fine.
23. —(1.) If a British subject—
(i.) Publicly derides, mocks, or insults any
religion established or observed within the
limits of this Order ; or
(ii.) Publicly offers insult to any religious
service, feast, or ceremony established or kept
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in any place within those limits, or to any
place of worship, tomb, or sanctuary belong
ing to any religion established or observed
within those limits, or to the ministers or pro
fessors thereof; or
(iii.) Publicly and wilfully commits any act
tending to bring any religion established or
observed within those limits, or its ceremonies,
mode of worship, or observances, into hatred,
ridicule, or contempt, and thereby to provoke a
breach of the public peace ;
he shall be guilty of an offence, and on convic
tion thereof, liable to imprisonment which may
extend to two years, with or without a fine not
exceeding 500 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. , or to a fine alone not
exceeding -500 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. .
(2) Consular officers shall take such precau
tionary measures as seem to them proper and
expedient for the prevention of such offences.
24. Any British subject being within the
limits of this Order may be proceeded against,
tried, and punished under this Order for piracy
wherever committed.
25.. If any British subject within the limits of
this Order violates or fails to observe any stipula
tion of any Treaty between His Majesty, His
predecessors, heirs, or successors, and the Shah
of Persia for the time being in force, in respect of
the violation whereof any penalty is stipulated for
in the Treaty, he shall be deemed guilty of an
offence against the Treaty, and on conviction
thereof under this Order shall be liable to a
penalty in accordance with the stipulations of the
Treaty.
26. Where a person entitled to appeal to the
High Court of Bombay from any judgment or
order passed in the exercise of criminal jurisdiction
under this Order desires so to appeal, he shall
present ins petition of appeal to the Court which
passed the judgment or order ; and the petition
shall with all practicable speed be transmitted by
or through the Consul-General to the High Court,
with certified copies of the charge (if any) and
proceedings, of all documentary evidence admitted
or tendered, of the depositions, of the notes of the
oral testimony, and of the judgment or order, and
any argument on the petition of appeal that the
appellant desires to submit to the High Court.
27. The Court against whose judgment or
order the appeal is preferred may postpone the
execution of the sentence pending the appeal, and
shall, if necessary, commit the person convicted
to prison for safe custody, or detain him in prison
for safe custody, or shall admit him to bail, and
may take security, by recognizance, deposit of
money, or otherwise, for his payment of any fine.
Part IV.—Civil Matters.
28. Subject to the other provisions of this
Order, the Code of Civil Procedure, and the
other Indian enactments relating to the ad
ministration of civil ju'tice and to insolvency
and bankruptcy for the time being applicable
to the Persian coast and islands, shall have
effect as if the Persian coast and islands were a
district 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 ; the Con
sul-General shall be deemed to be the District
Judge, and the Judicial Assistant shall be an
additional District Judge of the district, and the
Court, whether held by the Consul-General or by
the Judicial Assistant, shall be deemed to be the
District Court or Principal Civil Court of Original