File 791/1904 Pt 1 'Orders-in-Council: Persian Coast and Islands' [‎287v] (307/357)

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Majesty’s dominions, and the offender is accord-
ingly sent for imprisonment to a place in His
Majesty’s dominions, 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.
14, — (1.) In cases of murder or culpable homi- Crimes at sea,
cide, if either the death or the criminal act
which wholly or partly caused the death happened
within the Persian coast and islands, a Court
acting under this Order shall have the like juris
diction over any British subject who is charged
either as a principal offender or as an abettor as
if both such criminal act and the death had
happened within the Persian coast and islands.
(2.) In the case of any crime committed on the
high seas or within the Admiralty jurisdiction by
any British subject who at the time of committing
such crime was on board a British ship, or on
board a foreign ship to which he did not belong,
a Court, acting under this Order, shall have
jurisdiction as if the crime had been committed
within the Persian coast and islands.
(3.) In cases tried under this Article no different
sentence can be passed from the sentence which
could be passed in England if the crime were
tried there.
(4.) The foregoing provisions of this Article
shall be deemed to be adaptations, for the pur
poses of this Order and of the Foreign Juris
diction Act, 1890, of the following enactments,
namely:—*
The Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849 ;
The Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1860 ;
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, Part XIII.
And those enactments shall apply accordingly,
and be administered within the Persian coast and
islands.
15. Where a warrant or order of arrest is Backing of
issued by a competent Consular authority in warraut8 ‘
inland Persia for the apprehension of a person
who is accused of crime committed in inland
Persia, and who is, or is supposed to be, within
the limits of this Order, and such warrant or order
is produced to any Court acting under this Order,
the Court may back the warrant or order, and the
same, when so backed, shall be sufficient authority
to any person to whom it was originally directed^