Coll 25/36 'Orders in Council: Revision of Persian Gulf Orders-in-Council' [‎57v] (120/476)

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offender is accordingly sent for imprisonment to a place outside the limits
of this Order, the place shall be either a place in some part of His Majesty’s
dominions the Government whereof consents that offenders may be sent thither
under this Article, or a place in which by treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, or
other lawful means His Majesty has jurisdiction.
(2) A warrant under the hand and seal of 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
sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed to receive and detain
the person therein named and to carry him to and deliver him up at the
place named according to the warrant.
23. —(1) In cases of murder or culpable homicide, if either the death or
the criminal act which wholly or partly caused the death happened in Qatar,
a Court acting under this Order shall have the like jurisdiction over any
person to whom this Order applies who is charged either as a principal
offender or as an abettor as if both such criminal act and the death had
happened in Qatar.
(2) In the case of any offence committed on the high seas or within the
Admiralty jurisdiction by any person who at the time of committing such
offence was on board a British ship, or by any British subject on board a
foreign ship to which he did not belong, the Court shall, subject to the
provisions of this Order, have jurisdiction over such person as if the offence
had been committed within its jurisdiction.
(3) In cases tried under this Article no different sentence can be passed
from that which could have been passed in India if the crime had been
tried there on 14th August, 1947.
(4) The foregoing provisions of this Article shall be deemed as well as
the provisions of Article 12 (2) above to be adaptations, for the purposes
of this Order and of the Foreign Jurisdiction 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 in Qatar.
24. Where a person is convicted of an offence the Court before which he
is convicted may, if it thinks fit at any time before he is discharged, require
him to give security to the satisfaction of the Court for his future good
behaviour, and for that purpose may, if it thinks fit, cause him to come or be
brought before the Court.
25. —(1) Where it is shown by evidence on oath, to the satisfaction of the
Court, that any person to whom this Order applies has committed, or is
about to commit, an offence against this Order, or is otherwise conducting
himself so as to be dangerous to peace and good order, or is endeavouring to
excite enmity between the people of Qatar and His Majesty, or is intriguing
within the limits of this Order against His Majesty’s power and
authority, the Court may, if it thinks fit, by order under its seal, prohibit
that person from being within the limits of this Order during any time therein
specified, not exceeding two years, or alternatively may require him to give
security for his future good behaviour.
(2) The Court, by order in writing under its seal, may vary any order of
prohibition (not extending the duration thereof), and may revoke any order
of prohibition.