Coll 25/18 'Orders-in-Council: Qatar: Jurisdiction over foreigners in Qatar' [‎275v] (550/635)

seal, order any person convicted by the Court and sentenced to
imprisonment, to be sent to and detained at any prison in Kuwait
specified therein. Such prison may be a place appointed in accord
ance with the provisions of sub-Article ( 1 ) of Article 18 , or a place
appointed temporarily and for the purpose of the particular case.
( 2 ) The warrant 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 carry and delivj^
up the person therein named and to receive and detain him at t^
prison named, according to the warrant.
( 3 ) In any case where a person sentenced to imprisonment for a
term exceeding one month is detained in a prison temporarily
appointed in accordance with the provisions of sub-Article (2) of
Article 18 , the Court by which the sentence was awarded shall
report the case and the circumstances thereof to the Political Resi
dent for his directions.
(4) Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 20 , the Political
Resident upon the receipt of such report, may make an order under
suh-Article ( 1 ) of this Article, or may direct that the sentence shall
continue to be served at the place where the prisoner is at present
detained.
20 .— (1) Where .in offender convicted before any Court under
this Order is sentenced to imprisonment, and 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.
proceeding under section 7 of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890 ,
authority in that behalf being hereby given to him, considers it
expedient that the sentence should be carried into effect elsewhere
than within the limits of this Order, and the offender is accordingly
sent for imprisonment to a place outside the limits of this Order,
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 Govern
ment 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, provided that if
a person is not a British subject he shall only be sent under this
Article to a place in His Majesty’s dominions.
( 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 wdiom 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.
21 .— ( 1 ) In cases of murder or culpable homicide, if either the
death or the criminal act which w-holly or partly caused the death
happened in Kuwait, 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 Kuwait.
( 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