Coll 30/36 'Bahrain: claim of Yusuf Lutfali Khunji a Persian subject against Shaikh Hamad in respect of an ice factory' [‎140v] (280/340)

The Chief Court may, where it appears so expedient, by warrant
under the hand and seal of 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. , cause the
accused to be sent for trial to Bombay accordingly.
The warrant 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 Bombay according to the
warrant. .
Where any person is to be so sent to Bombay, the Court oc^®
which he is charged shall take the preliminary examination, and
shall bind over such of the proper witnesses as are British subjects
in their own recognizances to appear and give evidence on the
trial.
17 _( 1 ) 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. may by General Order pre
scribe the manner in which, and the places at which, sentences
of imprisonment are to be carried into execution within the
limits of the Order.
( 2 ) The Court may, in any case by warrant sealed with its
seal, cause an offender convicted and sentenced to imprisonment
before the Court to be removed to. and imprisoned in, any place
that shall be prescribed by 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. under the
authority provided for in subsection (1) of this Article.
18. Where an offender convicted before any Court under this
Order is sentenced to imprisonment, and 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.
proceeding under section 7 of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act,
1890, authority in that behalf being hereby given to him, con
siders 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 Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
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.
19. —( 1 ) In cases of murder or culpable homicide, if either the
death or the criminal act which wholly or . partly caused the
death happened in Bahrein, 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
in Bahrein.
(21 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 belong,
the Court shall, subject to the provisions of this Order, have juris
diction 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
England if the crime were tried there.