ملف ٦٩٧\ ١٩٢٠: "المرسوم الملكي البريطاني للكويت" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٨] (٥٧٩/٢٦١)

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THE GAZETTE OE INDIA, JUNE 27, 1925.
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respect of such matter.
70 —(1) All fees, charges, expenses, costs,
fines,' damages, and other money payable under
this Order or under any law made applicable
bv this Order, may be enforced under order of
the Court by seizure and sale of goods, and
in default of sufficient goods, by imprisonment
as a civil prisoner for a term not exceeding one
month but such imprisonment shall not operate
as a ’satisfaction or extinguishment of the
liability.
(2) Any bill of sale or mortgage, or transfer
of property made with a view of avoiding such
seizure or sale, shall not he ettectual to defeat
the provisions of this Order.
( 3 ) All fees, penalties, fines, and forfeitures
levied under this Order upon a British subject,
and fees, other than actual Court fees, that may
be levied under the provisions of this Order, on
a person to whom this Order applies, shall be
paid to the public account, and shall be applied
in such manner as the Secretary of State, with
the consent of the Treasury, or, with the previous
or subsequent assent of the Secretary of State,
the Governor-General of India in Council, may
direct.
71. Whenever an Acting Political Agent or
Acting Judicial Assistant has commenced the
hearing of any cause or matter, civil or criminal,
he may, unless the Political Resident otherwise
directs, continue and complete the hearing and
determination thereof, notwithstanding that his
authority to act as Political Agent or Judicial
Assistant has otherwise ceased by reason of the
expiration of the time for which he was appoint
ed to act or by reason of the happening of any
event by which his authority is determined.
72. —(1) If an officer of the Court, employed
to execute a decree or order, loses, by neglect or
omission, the opportunity of executing it, then,
on complaint of the person aggrieved and proof
of the fact alleged, the Court may, if it thinks
fit, order the officer to pay the damages sustained
by the person complaining, or part thereof.
(2) The order may be enforced as an order
directing payment of money.
73. — (1) If a clerk or officer of the Court,
acting under pretence of the process or authority
of the Court, is charged with extortion, or with
not paying over money duly levied, or with
other misconduct,* the Court may, if it thinks fit,
enquire into the charge in a summary way,
and may for that purpose summon and enforce
tlie attendance of all necessary persons as in
a smt, and may make such order for the repay-
. ment of any money extorted, or for the pay
ment over of any money levied, and for payment
ot such damages and costs as the Court thinks fit.
( 2 ) The Court may also, if it thinks fit. on
me same enquiry impose on the clerk or officer
sue! ime, not exceeding 50 rupees for each
offence, as the Court thinks fit.
^} cr ^ or officer punished under this
ho r.ti a not ’. witll °ut the leave of the Court,
1(1 e to a civil suit in respect of the same
matter ; and any such suit, if already or after
wards begun, may be stayed by the Court in
such manner and on such terms as the Court
thinks fit.
(4) Nothing in this article shall be deemed
to prevent any person from being prosecuted
under any other British or British Indian law
for any act or omission punishable under this
article, or from being liable under that other
law to any other or higher punishment or penalty .
than that provided by this article :
Provided that no person shall be punished
twice for the same offence.
74. The Political Resident or the Political
Agent may exercise any power conferred on any
Justices of the Peace within His Majesty’s
Dominions by any Act of Parliament, for the
time being in force, regulating merchant seamen
or the mercantile marine.
75. Where under the Merchant Shipping Act,
1894, anything is authorised to be done by, to,
or before a consular officer, such thing may be
done in any place in Kuwait by, to, or before
the Political Resident or the Political Agent.
78. The Political Resident and the Political
Auent shall each be entitled in Kuwait to act
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as a Notary Public.
77. The Court shall have jurisdiction from
time to time to make an order requiring a person
to whom this Order applies to contribute in such
manner as the Court directs to the support of
his wife, or to the support of his or her child,
whether legitimate or not, being, in the opinion
of the Court, under the age of 16 years. Any
such order may be made in a summary way as
if the neglect to provide for the support of such
wife or child were an offence, and any failure
. to comply with any such order shall be deemed
to be an offence, and shall be punishable with a
fine not exceeding 10 rupees for any one default,
and the Court may direct any penalty imposed
for such offence to be applied for the support of
such wife or child in such manner as the Court
thinks fit.
78. The Political Resident shall have power to
'make Regulations (to be called King’s Regula
tions) for the following purposes (that is to
say)
(a) For the peace, order, and good_ govern
ment of persons to whom this Order
applies in relation to matters not
provided for by this Order,
(5) For securing the observance of any
Treaty or arrangement for the time
being in force, relating to -any place
within the limits of this Order or of
any native or local law* or custom,
whether relating to trade, commerce,
revenue, or any other matter,
(c) For applying, amending, modifying or
repealing with respect to Kuwait any
Acts or enactments which apply, or
are made applicable, or have been
brought into operation in Kuwait, by
or under any of the provisions of
Article 11 of this Order,
(d) For 'regulating or preventing the
importation or exportation in British
ships, or by any person to whom this
Order applies, of arms or munitions