"ملف ١/٧ I المرسوم الملكي البريطاني للكويت (السلطة القضائية على الأجانب)" [ظ‎‎١‎٠‎١] (٣٩٤/٢٠٢)

of war, or any parts or ingredients
thereof, and for giving effect to any
Treaty relating to the importation or
exportation of the same,
(e) For requiring returns to be made of
the nature, quantity and value of
articles exported from or imported
into Kuwait, by or on account of any
person to whom this Order applies,
or in any British ship, and for pre
scribing the times and manner at or
in which, and the persons by whom,
such returns are to be made,
(f) For the governance, visitation, care,
and superintendence of prisons.
79. — (1) Any Regulations made under the
preceding article may provide for forfeiture
of any goods, receptacles, or things in relation
to which, or to the contents of which, any breach
is committed of such Regulations, or of any
Treaty or any native or local law or custom the
observance of which is provided for by such
Regulations.
(2) Any person to whom this Order applies
committing a breach of any such Regulations
shall, in addition to any forfeiture prescribed
thereby, be liable, on conviction, to imprison
ment for a period not exceeding three months
or to a fine, or to both.
(3) Any fine imposed for a breach of Regu
lation shall not exceed 1,500 rupees : provided
that in the case of any breach of any native
or local law T relating to customs law, or under
which the importation or exportation of any
goods is prohibited or restricted, the fine may
extend to a sum equivalent to treble the value of
the goods in relation to which the breach is
committed.
80. — (1) King’s Regulations shall not take
effect until they are allowed by a Secretary of
State, or, with his previous or subsequent assent,
by the Governor-General of India in Council :
provided that in case of urgency declared in
any such Regulations the same shall take effect
before such allow’ance, and shall continue to have
effect unless and until they are disallowed by
the Secretary of State, or, with his previous or
subsequent assent, by the Governor-General of
India in Council, and until notification of such
disallowance is received and published by the
Political Resident) and such disallowance shall
be without prejudice to anything done or
suffered under such Regulations in the meam
time.
(2) All King’s Regulations shall be published
by the Political Resident in such manner and at
such places as he may think proper.
(3) In this Order lt breach of the Regula
tions ” includes the breach of any native or
local law or custom, the observance of which is
required by any King’s Regulations.
81. Judicial notice shall be taken of this Order
and of the commencement thereof, and of the
appointment of the Political Resident, Political
Agent, and Judicial Assistant, and of the consti
tution and limits of the Courts and districts
and of the seals and signatures, and of any rules
and regulations made o r in force under this
Order, and no proof shall be required of any of
sufih matters.
82. Nothing in this Order shall deprive the*
Political Resident, or an officer subordinate to
him, of the right to observe, and to enforce the
observance of, or shall deprive any person of the
benefit of, any reasonable custom existing in
Kirvvait, unless this Order contains some express
and specific provision incompatible with the
observance thereof.
83. Nothing in this Order shall—
(i) Affect any power or jurisdiction con
ferred by, or referred to in, the Act of
the Governor-General of India in
Council, entitled the Indian Extradition
Act, 1903 (Act XV of 1903), or in the
Indian (Foreign Jurisdiction) Order
in Council, 1902 ; or
(n) Affect any jurisdiction for the time
being exercisable by the Political Resi
dent under any Imperial Act other
than the Foreign Jurisdiction Act,
1890 ; or
(Hi) Prevent the Political Agent from doing
anything which His Majesty’s Consuls
in the Dominions of any State in amity'
with His Majesty are for the time being
by law*, usage, or sufferance, entitled
or enabled to do.
84. If a question arises whether any place is-
or is not in Kuwait for the purposes of this
Order, it shall be referred to the Political Resi
dent, and a certificate under his hand and seal
shall be conclusive on the question, and shall
be taken judicial notice of by any Court estab
lished under this Order.
85. Not later than the 31st day of March in.
each year, or such other day as the Secretary
of State, or, w’ith his previous or subsequent
assent, the Governor-General of India in Council,,
directs from time to time, the Political Resident
shall send to the Governor-General of India in
Council, for transmission to the Secretary of
State; a report on the operation of this Order’
up to the 31st day of December in the previous
year, or such other date as the Secretary of
State, or, with his previous or subsequent assent,,
the Governor-General of India in Council, directs-
from time to time, showing for the last tw’elve/
months the number and nature of the proceed
ings, criminal and civil, taken under this Order,
and the result thereof, and the number and
amount of fees received, and such other informa
tion. and being in such form as the Secretary
of State, or wdth his previous or subsequent
assent, the Governor-General of India in Council,,
from time to time directs.
86 . — ( 1 ) A printed copy of this Order, and.
of all Rules of Procedure and other Rules for’
the time being in force under this Order, shall
lie kept open to inspection free of charge in the*
Office of the Political Agent and of each Court
established under this Order.
(2) Printed, copies thereof shall be sold in:
Kuwait at such reasonable price as the Political
Agent from time to time directs.
87. —(1) This Order shall be published in the
Gazette of India within such time after the pass
ing thereof as the Secretary of State may
prescribe, and shall come into force on such
day (in this Order referred to as the commence - 1
ment of this Order), within, six. months after.