'14/240 I B. 69. JURISDICTION IN THE TRUCIAL SHAIKHDOMS' [‎131r] (274/447)

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(3) In any case where a person sentenced to imprisonment
for a term exceeding one month is detained in a prison tem
porarily 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 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. for his directions.
(4) Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 20, 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. upon the receipt of such report may make an
^'rder under sub-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 an offender convicted before any Court under
this Order is sentenced to imprisonment, and the Political Resi
dent 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
Province of Bombay, or a place in some other part of His
Majesty's dominions the Government 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 Resi
dent shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom 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 wholly or partly caused the c
death happened in Qata^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
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(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 British subject on board a foreign ship to which he did not
^Walong, the Court shall, subject to the provisions of this Order,
have jurisdiction over such person as if the offence had been
committed within its jurisdiction.
(3) In cases tried under this Article no different sentence can
be passed from the sentence which could be passed in India if
the crime were tried there.