"ملف ١/٧ I المرسوم الملكي البريطاني للكويت (السلطة القضائية على الأجانب)" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٢] (٣٩٤/٢٨٣)

such Act, Law, or Order, are made applicable for any purpose of
this Order, or any other Order relating to Kuwait, such Acts,
Laws, Orders, forms, regulations, or procedure may be construed
or used with such alterations and adaptations not affecting the
substance as may be necessary having regard to local circum
stances, and anything required to be done by, to, or before any
Court, Judge, Officer, or Authority may be done by, to, or before
a Court, Judge, Officer, or Authority having the like or analogous
functions, or by, to, or before any Officer designated by t^‘»
Secretary of State or by the Court (as the case may require; i c
that purpose; and in case any difficulty occurs in the application
tlhe Secretary of State, or with his previous or subsequent assent
the Governor-General of India in Council, may direct by, to, or
before whom and in what manner anything is to be done, and
such Act, Law, Order, Form, Regulation, or procedure shall be
construed accordingly.
Where, under any such Imperial Act, Law, or Order, any
publication is required to be made, as respects any judicial pro
ceeding in any “ Gazette ” or otherwise, such publication shall
be made by such mode as the Court shall think fit to direct.
Part III.— Criminal.
14.—(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Order, the
Code of Criminal Procedure and the other enactments relating to
the administration of criminal justice in British India for the time
being shall be applicable to Kuwait. The Political Resident in
the Persian Gulf shall hold and form a Court, to be called the
Chief Court, which shall 'have all the powers of a High Court of
Judicature : the Political Agent at Kuwait shall be deemed to be
the District Magistrate and Sessions Judge ; the Judicial Assistant
to the Political Resident shall be deemed to be the additional Dis
trict Magistrate and additional Sessions Judge; and the powers
of the Governor-General in Council and of the Local Government
under those enactments shall be exercisable by the Secretary of
State, or, with his previous or subsequent assent, by the Governor-
General of India in Council.
Notwithstanding, in any case triable by a subordinate Magis
trate under Chapters XVI to XXIII inclusive of the Indian Penal
Code if both the complainant and defendant are Muhammadans
and are acquiescent in such procedure, the Political Agent may
order the case to be tried by a Qazi, a representative from the
Agency attending to record briefly the proceedings. In such
suits the judgment passed by the Qazi shall not be carried into
effect until it is ratified by the Political Agent, and the Political
Agent shall have power to revise the finding and sentence as if
the Qazi were a subordinate Magistrate, or to return the case for
retrial to the same or another Qazi. The sentence of tftie Qazi,
when ratified by the Political Agent, shall for all purposes be
regarded as if it were the decision of the Political Agent in the
District Court.