Coll 25/36 'Orders in Council: Revision of Persian Gulf Orders-in-Council' [‎148Br] (332/476)

12- (1) The following enactments shall apply
to Bahrain as if it were a British Colony
or possession but subject to the provisions
of this Order and to the exceptions, adaptions,
and modifications specified in sub-Article (2;
of this Article and in Article 21 below:-
(i) The Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Acts,
1849 & 1860.
(ii) The Foreign Tribunals Evidence Act, 1866.
(iii) The Evidence by Commission Acta 1869.& 1886
(iv) The British Law Ascertainment Act, 1869
(v) The Foreign Law Ascertainment Act, 1861.
(vi) The Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881.
(vii) The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, Part XIII
( 2 ) (i) References in any of the said Acts to
the Governor of a Colony or British Possession,
to a Superior Court or Supreme Court, and to
a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace of a
Colony or British Possession shall be
construed re^ectively as references 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. , the Chief Court and the
District Court.
(ii) Yi/ith respect to the Fugitive Offenders
Act, 1881:-
(a) The Act shall extend only to British
subjects.
(bj So much of the 4th and 6 th sections of
the said Act as Klates to sending a report
of the issue of a warrant together with the
information or a copy thereof, or to the
sending of a certificate of committal and
report of a case, or to the information to be
given by a Magistrate to a fugitive shall be
excepted, and in lieu of such information the
person acting as the Magistrate shall inform
the fugitive that in the British Possession
to which he may be conveyed he has~the right '
apply for a writ of habeas corpus, .or other
like process.
(c) So much of the 6 th section of the
said Act as requires the expiration of fifteen
days before issue of warrant shall be excepted.
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 not
be bound to return a fugitive offender to a
British Possession unless satisfied that the
proceedings to obtain his return are taken with
the consent of the Governor of that Possession.
U; For the purposes of Part II of the
f2 id m Act ] Muscat, Bahrain^ Kuwait, Qatar and
the Irucial States., shall be deemed to be
one group of British Possessions.