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(2) Such jurisdiction shall be exercised in accordance with the provisions of this
Order and of the principal Orders and of any rules of Court made under this Order.
h) Such jurisdiction shall, subject to the provisions of this Order, be over the like
Dlaces persons matters and things, when within the limits of the principal Order, as the
Admiraltyjurisdictionof the High Court in England, whether existing by virtue of any
statute or otherwise, and the Court may exercise such jurisdiction in like manner and to
as full an extent as the High Court in England, and shall have the same regard as that
Court to international law and the comity of nations. k L r lu
(4) Any reference to a Vice-Admiralty Court which is contained in any Act of the
Imperial Parliament, or in any law of a British possession applicable within the limits of
the principal Order, shall be construed as a reference to the Court or Courts upon which
Admiralty jurisdiction is conferred by this Order, and such Court shall have jurisdiction
accordingly.
Provided as follows :—
(a) The Court shall not have any greater jurisdiction in relation to the laws and re
gulations relating to His Majesty's navy at sea, or under any Act providing for the dis
cipline of His Majesty's navy, than may be from time to time conferred on such Court by
Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. . , _ ^
ib) Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to confer upon the Court jurisdiction in
any prize cause or in any other matter within " The Naval Prize Act, 1864, or in any
matter arising under any of the Acts for the suppression of the Slave Trade.
5. An action under this Order shall be tried by a Judge sitting alone or with Assessors
appointed in the prescribed manner. • • 1 ^ j t-u
6.—(1) Where Provincial Courts have been established by the principal Urder, the
Judge may, by writing under his hand and the seal of the Court, order that the Registry o
a Provincial Court within the jurisdiction of the Court be a District Registry of the Court
for the purposes of this Order, and the Registrar and Marshal of the Provincial Court
shall, within the jurisdiction of such Provincial Court, be the District Registrar and District
Marshal of the Court, and may exercise within such jurisdiction all the prescribed functions
and perform all the prescribed duties of the Registrar and Marshal of the Court.
(2) Where an action has been commenced in a District Registry the Judge may ° r ^ er
that such action shall be tried in the Provincial Court ; but the making of any such Order
shall not affect the power of the Judge to remove the said action at any time to the
Supreme Court.
7. In places where there is no District Registry, the Judge may direct that for the
purposes of any particular matter or action " the powers of a District Registrar and Marsha
may be exercised by the Provincial Court."
8. The territorial waters adjacent to the district of a Provincial Court shall for the >
purposes of this Order be deemed to be within the jurisdiction of such Provincial Court.
9. An appeal from any judgment of the Court or of a Provincial Court under this
Order shall be subject to the provisions of the principal Order governing appeals in civil
cases, and the Court having cognizance of such appeal shall, for the purpose thereo., possess
all the jurisdiction conferred upon the Court by the principal Order or by this Order.
10. The Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890, section 6, shal 1 apply to appeals from
the Court to His Majesty in Council as if the Court were a Colonial Court of Admiralty.
11. Rules of Court for the purposes of this Order shall be made by the same authority,
and in the same manner and subject to the same approval, as Rules of Court made in virtue
of the powers conferred by the principal Order.
12. The following Articles are hereby repealed :—
Article 100 of the China and Corea Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , 1904;
Article 29 of the Zanzibar Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , 1906 ;
Article 90 of the Siam Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , 1906 ;
Article 29 of the Persian Coast and Islands Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , 1907 ;
Provided that—
1. Proceedings begun under any of the Articles repealed by this Order, and pending
at the time when this Order comes into operation, shall, from and after that time, be regu- —
lated by the provisions of this Order, as far as the nature and circumstances of each case
admit.
2. The Rules of Court and Table of Fees and Costs in force under the repealed
Articles shall continue in force until rules are made and have come into force under the
provisions of this Order.
13. Nothing in this Order shall affect the criminal jurisdiction of any Court established
by the principal Order.
14. This Order shall not operate in Siam except to the extent and in the cases where
the provisions of the principal Order are in operation.
And the Right Honourable Sir Edward Grey, Baronet, one of His Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein.
Aimeric FitzRoy.
J. B. WOOD,
Secretary to the Government of India.
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