"ملف ١/٧ I المرسوم الملكي البريطاني للكويت (السلطة القضائية على الأجانب)" [ظ‎‎٩‎٨] (٣٩٤/١٩٦)

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Court, or in his going to or returning
from Court ; or
(4) Does any act in relation to the Court
or a Judge thereof, or a matter pending
therein, which, if done in relation to a
Superior Court in England or in India,
would be punishable as a contempt of
such Court, or as a libel on such Court
or the Judges thereof, or the administra
tion of justice therein ;
such person shall be liable to be apprehended by
order of the Court with or without warrant, and,
on inquiry and consideration, and after the hear
ing of any defence which such person may oft’er,
without further process or trial, to be punished
with a fine not exceeding 100 rupees, or with im
prisonment not exceeding twenty-four hours,
A minute shall be made and kept of every
such case of punishment, recording the facts
ofi the offence and the extent of the punishment.
Provided that, if the Court thinks fit, instead
of proceeding under the preceding provisions,
it may direct or cause the offender to be tried
in a separate criminal prosecution or proceeding,
in which the offender shall be liable to any
punishment to which he would be liable if the
offence were committed in relation to the Court
of a Sessions Judge in India.
Nothing herein shall interfere with the power
of the Court to remove or exclude persons who
interrupt or obstruct the proceedings of the
Court.
26. If any person to whom this Order applies
smuggles or imports into or exports from Kuwait
any goods whereon any duty is charged by or
payable to the Sultan, with intent to evade pay
ment of the duty, he shall be punished wdth im
prisonment for a term which may extend to two
months, or with a fine which may extend to 1,000
rupees, or a sum equal to treble the value of the
goods (whichever shall be the greater), or with
both imprisonment and fine.
27. If any person to whom this Order applies
smuggles or imports into or exports from Kuwait
any goods the importation or exportation whereof
is lawfully prohibited he shall be punished with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to
one year, or with a fine which may extend to
2,000 rupees, or to a sum equal to treble the
value of the goods (whichever shall be the
greater), or with imprisonment and fine.
28. Any act which, if done in British India,
would be an offence against the law for the time
being in force in British India, relating to trade
marks, merchandise marks, copyright designs,
or inventions, shall, if done in Kuwait by a person
to whom this Order applies, be an offence punish
able with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to two months, or with a fine which may
extend to 1,000 rupees, or with both.
29 —(1) If any person to whom this Order
applies :—
(i) Publicly derides, mocks or insults any
religion established or observed with
in 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 With
in those limits, or belonging to the
ministers or professors thereof ; or
(iii) Publicly and wilfully commits any act
tending to bring any religion estab
lished or observed within those limits,
or its ceremonies, modes of worship,
or observances into hatred, ridicule,
or contempt, and thereby to provoke
a breach of the public peace ;
he shall be guilty of an offence, and on convic
tion thereof liable to imprisonment, which may
extend to two years, with or without a fine not
exceeding 500 rupees, or to a fine alone not ex
ceeding 500 rupees.
(2) The Political Agent shall take such pre
cautionary 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 vio
lates, or fails to observe within the limits of this
Order, any stipulation of any Treaty between
His Majesty, his predecessors, heirs, or success-
ors, and the Shaikh, 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, 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 jurisdiction 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
t© the Chief Court with certified copies of the
charge (if any) and proceedings, of all docu
mentary evidence submitted or tendered, of the
depositions, of the notes of the oral testimony,
and of the judgment or order, and any argu-
ynent on the petition of appeal that the appellant
desires to submit to the Chief Court.
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34. The 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 con
victed to prison for safe custody, or detain him
in prison for safe custody, or shall admit him
to bail, and may take security, by recognisance,
deposit of money, or otherwise, for his payment
of any fine.
Part IV.— Civil MATraRs.
35.— ( 1 ) Subject to the other provisions of
this Order, the Code'of Civil Procedure and the
other Indian enactments relating to the ad
ministration of civil justice and to insolvencv
and bankruptcy, shall have effect as if Kuwait
were a district in the Presidency of Bombay.
The Political Agent shall be deemed to be the
District Judge, and his Court shall be deemed
to be the District or Principal Civil Court of
Original Jurisdiction in the district : the