Coll 30/36 'Bahrain: claim of Yusuf Lutfali Khunji a Persian subject against Shaikh Hamad in respect of an ice factory' [‎142v] (284/340)

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29.—(1) If any person to whom this Order applies—
(i) Publicly derides, mocks, or insults any religion estab
lished or observed within the limits of this Order; or
(ii) Publicly offers insult to any religious service, feast, or
ceremony established or kept in any place within those
limits, or to any place of worship, tomb, or sanctuary
belonging to any religion established or observed
within those limits, or belonging to the Ministers
professors thereof; or
(iii) Publicly and wilfully commits any act tending to bring
any religion established or observed within those
limits, or its ceremonies, mode of worship, or observ
ances, into hatred, ridicule, or contempt, and thereby
to provoke a breach of the public peace;
he shall be guilty of an offence, and on conviction thereof, liable
to imprisonment which may extend to two years, with or without
a fine not exceeding 500 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. , or to a fine alone not exceeding
500 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. .
( 2 ) The Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. shall take such precautionary measures
as seem to him proper and expedient for the prevention of such
offences.
30. Any person being within the limits of this Order may be
proceeded against, tried, and punished under this Order for
piracy wherever committed.
31. If any person, subject to this Order, violates, or fails to
observe wdthin the limits of this Order, any stipulation of any
Treaty between His Majesty, His predecessors, heirs, or succes
sors, and the Sheikh of Bahrein for the time being in force, and
applicable to such person, in respect of the violation whereof
any penalty is stipulated for in the Treaty, he shall be deemed
guilty of an offence, and. on conviction thereof under this Order
shall be liable to a penalty in accordance with the stipulations
of the Treaty, or the provisions of this Order.
32. The foreign Jurisdiction Neutrality Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. ,
1904, shall apply to all persons and to all property subject to
this Order.
33. Where a person entitled to appeal to the Chief Court from
any judgment or order passed in the exercise of criminal juris
diction under this Order desires so to appeal, he shall present
his petition of appeal to the Court which passed the judgment or
order, and the petition shall with all practicable speed be
transmitted to the Chief Court with certified copies of the charge
(if any) and proceedings of all documentary evidence admitted
or tendered, of the depositions, of the notes of the oral testimony,
and of the judgment or order, and any argument on the petition
of appeal that the appellant desires to submit to the Chief Court.
34. Ihe Court against whose judgment or order the appeal is
preferred may postpone the execution of the sentence pending
the appeal, and shall, if necessary, commit the person convicted
to prison for safe custody, or detain him in prison for safe
custody, or shall admit him to bail, and may take security, by
recognizance, deposit of money, or otherwise, for his payment of
any fine.
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