Coll 25/14 'Orders in Council: Koweit: New Order' [‎101v] (207/545)

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forms, regulations, or procedure may be construed or used with
such alterations and adaptations not affecting the substance as
may be necessary having regard to local circumstances, and any
thing required to be done by, to, or before any Court, Judge, Officer,
or Authority may be done by, to, or before a Court, Judge, Officer,
or Authority having the like or analogous functions, or by, to, or
before any Officer designated by the Secretary of State or by the
Court (as the case may require) for that purpose ; and in case any
difficulty occurs in the application the Secretary of State, or with
his previous or subsequent assent the Governor-General of India
in Council, may direct by, to, or before whom and in what manner
anything is to be done, and such Act, Law, Order, Form, Regula
tion, or procedure shall be construed accordingly.
Where, under any such Imperial Act, Law, or Order, any
publication is required to be made, as respects any judicial proceed
ing in any “ Gazette ” or otherwise, such publication shall be
made by such mode as the Court shall think fit to direct.
Part III.— Criminal Matters.
15.— (1) Subject to the other provisions of this Order, the Code
of Criminal Procedure and the other enactments relating to the
administration of criminal justice in British India for the time being
shall be applicable to Kuwait. The Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian
Gulf shall hold and form a Court, to be called the Chief Court,
which shall have all the powers of a High Court of Judicature:
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. at Kuwait shall be deemed to be the District
Magistrate and Sessions Judge; the Judicial Assistant to the
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. shall be deemed to be the additional District
Magistrate and additional Sessions Judge; and the powers of the
Governor-General in Council and of the Local Government under
those enactments shall be exercisable by the Secretary of State,
or, with his previous or subsequent assent, by the Governor-General
of India in Council.
Notwithstanding, in any case triable by a subordinate Magistrate
under Chapters XVI to XXIII inclusive of the Indian Penal Code
if both the complainant and defendant are Muhammadans and
are acquiescent in such procedure, 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. may order
the case to be tried by a Qazi, a representative from the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
attending to record briefly the proceedings. In such suits the judg
ment passed by the Qazi shall not be carried into effect until it is
ratified 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. , and 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. shall have
power to revise the finding and sentence as if the Qazi were a sub
ordinate Magistrate, or to return the case for retrial to the same or
another Qazi. The' sentence of the Qazi when ratified 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. , shall for all purposes be regarded as if it were the
decision 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. in the District Court.